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Konovalov, Vadim
Date:
June 29, 2022 22:14
Subject:
RE: A troubling thought - smartmatch reïmagined
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Walde <walde.christian@gmail.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 2:26 PM
> To: Tomasz Konojacki; "Paul "LeoNerd"
> Evans"; Perl5 Porters; Konovalov, Vadim
> Subject: Re: A troubling thought -
> smartmatch re?magined
> 
> 
> [EXTERNAL EMAIL] 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:29:56 +0200,
> Konovalov, Vadim <Vadim.Konovalov@dell.com> wrote:
> 
> >> From: Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl>
> >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, at 06:30, Konovalov, Vadim wrote:
> >>> Usage of "?" in this context is obviously incorrect.
> >>> Not only you're messing with following search engines, you're also 
> >>> applying wrong meaning to the umlaut.
> >>>
> >>> IMO adding such kind of jokes isn't improving overall impression.
> >>>
> >>> This joke is stupid.
> >>
> >> It isn't umlaut, and it isn't "obviously incorrect", just unusual:
> >
> > Thanks for the correction, it is indeed "Diaeresis", not umlaut.
> >
> > IMO using diaeresis in co?perate and in re?magined is playing smartass, until all "foo" instances replaced with "fo?" through all the Perl source code.
> 
> foo (pronounced as in fool) contains a single vowel, a single sound, with no
> break between the two 'o', so a diaeresis there would be inappropriate.
> 
> > This approach also disrespects German (and Estonian) reading of such letters.
> 
> As a German, i mentally stumble when i encounter a diaeresis, however i do not
> feel disrespected. Nobody and no culture owns those two dottels.

Unicode do. Ok?


> 
> Further,
> discussing this on the mailing list (rather than asking Leonerd in private
> without insults) does not seem particularly on-topic, and i would hope the
> conversation could die with this message.

Yes, it the conversation should die.
I agree.

Thanks for the notice.


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