/. rebuttal of the original article at
http://slashdot.org/features/01/06/06/0132203.shtml, for those that haven't
seen it yet.
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Bryan C. Warnock
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> ACY's taking a look into this too, so you may want to co-ordinate to avoid
> clashing. I've also told him what I'd like: something like this:
>
> Scalar
> Strings
> Chop from beginning
> Format a la sprintf
>
On Saturday 09 June 2001 06:24 am, NeonEdge wrote:
> Is this Uppercase?
> Is this Lowercase (is this 'half-digits', as Hong mentioned?)
> (if 'Caseless' needed, just "!Upper && !Lower"?)
Titlecase.
> Is this Punctuation?
> Is this a digit?
> Is this a word character?
> Is this Whitespace?
> Maps
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:24:44AM -0400, NeonEdge wrote:
> (correct me if I'm wrong):
> Is this Uppercase?
> Is this Lowercase (is this 'half-digits', as Hong mentioned?)
upper case and lower case digits are used by "old fashioned"] typography
[I don't know the exact details]
I think upper case
Personally, I'm not sure that Perl 6 even needs to worry about any of this. I
think as long as Perl can manipulate the characters without screwing them up in
any way, that should be fine. As far as support for locale specifics, maybe it
would just be best to do what Perl does now, but allow overlo
