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In <4576.957042210@chthon>, Tom Christiansen writes:
:>ll153-4: Otherwise, the lefter one always wins.
:>Cute though it is, I'd rather see something like 'the leftmost of the
:>two'.
:
:The problem with that, which I did consider, is that -most is in
:the superlative degree, something that cannot occur when merely two
:items are being compared. For that, you need the comparative degree.
Otherwise, the one to the left always wins. ('starting to the left of
the other', in full.)
I think I understand why you've added this new paragraph, but I'm not
at all sure that it is the right thing to do - I think there is a
danger that it will make it more difficult for the gentle reader
later to understand how the backtracking mechanism (along with the
combinatorial rules of a few simple operators) entirely determine
which match is found. I have no replacement to offer, however.
:>l179: \u titlecase next char
:>Not sure what 'titlecase' means, or why it is more accurate than
:>'uppercase', nor why \U was not similarly changed.
:
:Because that doesn't happen there. "titlecase" is a Unicode notion.
:(It's somewhat misleading, since it doesn't really understand proper
:titlecasing rules in English.) But some scripts (read: charsets)
:allegedly distinguish between these. That's why toke.c has
:toUPPER_LC_uni for uc(), but toTITLE_LC_uni for ucfirst().
I think that's worth expanding on then: taking myself as the
epitome of the man on the Clapham omnibus, the reader will not
know what this word means until it is explained.
Hugo