>While I don't know that I'd argue in favor of this feature request, your >argument against misses the mark here. It's saying, essentially, that the >difference between "P" and "p" is the same as the difference between -1 and >1. That, as they say, turns out not to be the case. >The upper and lower-case versions of letters in many languages are >essentially equivalent and it's reasonable to want them to be treated the >same way when that's appropriate. If you want to treat 1 and -1 as the same, you filter through abs(). If you want to treat a and A as the same, you filter through lc(). In neither case do you go creating new functions, when a generic filter will suffice. It's like making all programs understand some random new switch rather than creating one single filter program that produces the proper transmogrification. It's the Wrong Way. And you certainly don't go creating a brand new syntax! --tom
- RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators Perl6 RFC Librarian
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operato... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operato... Kevin Walker
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp ope... Nathan Torkington
- Upscope (was Re: RFC 143) John Porter
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp... Bryan C . Warnock
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp... David L. Nicol
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and... Nathan Torkington
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operato... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp ope... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring e... Nathan Torkington
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp ope... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp... Glenn Linderman
- infix functions David L. Nicol
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp ope... Markus Peter
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp... John Porter
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and... Mark Cogan
- Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operato... Bart Lateur