FYI, Larry "accents" to "marks" in this commit, as well as some
refactoring of the short adverbs associated with them:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/2010/05/msg33671.html
Thanks,
Moritz
Tom Christiansen wrote:
Certainly it's perfectly well known amongst people who deal with
letters--including with the Unicode standard.
"Accent" does have a colloquial meaning that maps correctly,
but sadly that colloquial definition does not correspond to
the technical definition, so in being
Tom Christiansen wrote:
Exegesis 5 @ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E05.html reads:
# Perl 6
/ < - [A-Za-z] >+ / # All alphabetics except A-Z or a-z
# (i.e. the accented alphabetics)
[Update: Would now need to be <+ - [A..Za..z]> to avoid
> Why isn't that:
> /<+ alpha - [A-Za-z]>+ /
If you're asking why it's mentioned in the "Update:" section
instead of the pattern in question just being rewritten, I don't know.
What got me most was the assumption that subtracting A-Za-z from Alphas
yielded "accented characters", as though Alpha
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> Exegesis 5 @ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E05.html reads:
>
> # Perl 6
> / < - [A-Za-z] >+ / # All alphabetics except A-Z or a-z
># (i.e. the accented alphabetics)
>
>[Update: Would now
Tom Christiansen wrote:
> Exegesis 5 @ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E05.html reads:
The Exegesis are historical documents, and should be treated as such.
(If any volunteer is around, submitting a patch that puts "HISTORICAL
DOCUMENT ONLY" in big red letter on these pages would be great
Exegesis 5 @ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E05.html reads:
# Perl 6
/ < - [A-Za-z] >+ / # All alphabetics except A-Z or a-z
# (i.e. the accented alphabetics)
[Update: Would now need to be <+ - [A..Za..z]> to avoid ambiguity
with "Texas quo
