Re: property, character, and sequence name loose matching

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 10 2010 - 04:58:24 CST

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    On 10 March 2010 01:37, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:
    >
    > What it means is that such names as:
    >
    > CHARACTER BZZT
    > CHARACTER B-ZZ-T
    > CHARACTER BZ-ZT
    >
    > would be considered matches. And because they are matches
    > by the loose matching rules for names and named sequences,
    > the UTC is careful to ensure that different characters are
    > not given such names, precisely because they are not considered
    > distinct.
    >
    > CHARACTER BZZT
    > CHARACTER BZZT-
    > CHARACTER -BZZT
    >
    > would *NOT* be considered matches. So in principle it would
    > be possible to have three different characters encoded with
    > those three names.

    Well, not the middle one, as hyphen is disallowed as the final
    character of a name, but

    CHARACTER BZZT BZZT
    CHARACTER BZZT- BZZT
    CHARACTER -BZZT BZZT

    would be unique and valid character names.

    Andrew

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