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On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 4:58 PM, <hv@crypt.org> wrote: > I had assumed the proposal was explicitly to affect \w. If that's not > the case, I don't understand what it would affect. > Why only \w? Punctuation characters can be mimicked in other scripts, too. U+FF70 (ｰ) HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK looks an awful lot like a dash. > > I had assumed /(*sr: \w+ x \w+ )/x would require two words sharing a > common script separated by a literal x. Are you expecting rather that > it would require the literal x also to be part of the common script? > > That seems very counter-intuitive. Everything is inside the same grouping construct; why would some parts be treated differently? > It feels unreasonably limiting (or at least unreasonably ugly) if that > would have to be expressed instead as /(*sr: \w+ (*srhide:x) \w+ )/x. > > Maybe it's ugly, but it's also clear exactly what is going on.Thread Previous | Thread Next