Re: Proposal for additional syntax (was Re: New Public Review Issue: Proposed Update UTS #18)

From: Mike (mike-list@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - 11:03:53 CST

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    > * \p{name=/MARK/} or equivalently \N{/MARK/}

    I hadn't thought of putting a regular expression inside \N,
    but I like it. Only question I have is whether it should
    also look for named character sequences.

    > open issue: whether it matches or searches. That is, to match all
    > characters with names starting with "LETTER" does one use:
    >
    > * \N{/LETTER.*/}
    > or
    > * \N{/^LETTER/}

    Personally I prefer the latter, but either way would work.
    I like /MARK/ better than /.*MARK.*/.

    Mike

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