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Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > 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 > I think we should go with Ben's idea. I had suggested using M for mode, other suggestions were L apparently for locale, and I for internationalization. I'm now thinking C for character set. Cu for Unicode Cl for current locale Ct for traditional, or Cm for mixed, which I think is clearer. Later there could be Ca for ASCII or Cp for Posix.Thread Previous | Thread Next