On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 11:04 , Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Yes, it is. It's hack. (Regexps and a small cache. It *really* sucked
without that cache...)
Oh yes. I had to say I almost got a hangover :P
(And I just remembered that viacode() returning an undef when there's
no corresponding name is by design.)
It should stay that way because I want to do something like
charname::viacode(0x5f3e)
or die "Sorry, Unicode Consortium says you are nameless, dan.".
I don't think people should be much writing those definitions by hand.
It would be easy to have a more user-friendly interface for that.
At least we should document it is delimited by a single tab (Oh my
python!) or better yet, replace the \t to \s+ in the regex that parses
it. I already know where it is so if you accept this idea, I'll send
you a patch.
As for the frequency of definition, don't you see it can be a handy way
to alias character classes? Who knows how creatively users use the
features we add...
I would like to make this a 5.8.1 todo of mine.....
Whatever you try, it will be tested in the 5.9 branch first.
I wonder when the branch will happen....
Dan the Encode Maintainer
