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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:27:02PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote: > > > =item * > > > > Perl pattern matching uses Unicode rules for case-insensitivity, but > Python > > uses only ASCII casefolding rules, but Perl uses Unicode casefolding > rules, > > so (for example) all three Greek sigmas match case-insensitively in Perl. > > > I cannot make head nor tails out of this sentence. It starts of with > Perl's ability to do case insensitive Unicode matching, contrasts that > with casefolding in Python, then contrast that with Unicode casefolding > in Perl. Too many "but"s to my taste, and IMO, you should either mention > casefolding three times, or case-insensitivity three times. > > > > =item * > > > > Not all functions need be methods in Perl. > > > "need to be"? > I tripped on this, too, but it's technically correct. By my third pass I thought the stylistic flare quite nice. David -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian KernighanThread Previous | Thread Next