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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:03:36PM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote: > Since there aren't any upper-case modifiers yet, it would be possible to > introduce the rule 'Upper-case modifiers take a single-character > argument' at this point. This would give a syntax like > > m/unicode /Uugx; > m/locale /Ulgx; > m/traditional/Utgx; > > which seems at least as clear as three or four random letters that > happen to be mutually-exclusive. Oh, now I do like that. It has all the neatness of my suggestion, but with the added bonus that now we know that capitals take a sub-flag, which we should look at the next letter afterwards. Perhaps we could establish this as a general precident? I have no idea what this means m/foo/AzTlxMvg but at least I can parse it as A=z, T=l, x=true, M=v, g=true -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/Thread Previous | Thread Next