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From:
David Golden
Date:
July 29, 2010 11:53
Subject:
Re: RFC: space vs. time vs. functionality in \N{name} loose matching
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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".

David

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