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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:21:25 -0600, karl williamson
<public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> David Golden wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM, karl williamson
> > <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> >> Concisely, it is essentially the equivalent of a Unix 'diff -i -w', but with
> >> most hyphens considered to be white space as well. Currently, when you say
> >> \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}, you currently must get the spacing exactly right
> >> and use all caps with no dashes for it to be understood. Loose matching
> >> would have, to use an extreme example, \N{La t in Capital letter-a} mean the
> >> same thing.
> >
> > I think I favor your option #3, which seems to be "strict names by
> > default, unless you ask perl to dwim".
>
> Sorry for being unclear. Yes it means the current behavior unless you
> ask specifically for the new, loose behavior.
+1
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