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On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:51 +0100, "Paul LeoNerd Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:54:01PM -0600, karl williamson wrote: > > These commits also add regex modifiers /u (unicode), /l (locale), and /t > > (traditional). /a is not part of this patch. I have made up the term > > "Matching mode" to describe this. I'm open to a better term, if you can > > think of one. > > It may perhaps be far too late to reconsider, but I'm not sure I like > these notations. These are three mutually-exclusive settings along one > axis, they are not three independent settings on three different axes, > such as /l vs /g. > > Would it not make more sense to group them up under a single /u flag, > something of the following: > > m/Unicode on/u > m/Unicode off/u0 > m/Unicode if locale says/ul > m/Unicode traditionally/ut We do have the assumption that capital letters oppose their lowercase counterparts, as far as I can tell, so that the first two would be m/Unicode on/u m/Unicode off/U (I'm making the assumption we're adding a /U with that /u.) The question is, are the other two on an axis where we can say "/l applies only if /u, and /uL would be the equivalent of the proposed /t option?" (i.e. is locale/traditional a two state, rather than locale/something else/traditional being 3-state?) --Curtis Jewell -- Curtis Jewell csjewell@cpan.org http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/ perl@csjewell.fastmail.us http://csjewell.comyr.org/perl/ "Your random numbers are not that random" -- perl-5.10.1.tar.gz/util.c Strawberry Perl for Windows betas: http://strawberryperl.com/beta/Thread Previous | Thread Next