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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Data.Char: isAlpha vs. isLetter (Joey Hess)
2. Re: Data.Char: isAlpha vs. isLetter (Stayvoid)
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:49:19 -0400
From: Joey Hess <j...@kitenet.net>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Data.Char: isAlpha vs. isLetter
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Brandon Allbery wrote:
> Probably an alias for backward compatibility; isAlpha is C-style <ctype.h>
> stuff, which was ASCII only, whereas isLetter is Unicode style.
Prelude Data.Char> all (\c -> isLetter c == isAlpha c) [minBound..maxBound]
True
Whew! You had me worried my code had unicode bugs.
isAlpha == isLetter
--
see shy jo
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:52:05 +0400
From: Stayvoid <stayv...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Data.Char: isAlpha vs. isLetter
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> Probably an alias for backward compatibility; isAlpha is C-style <ctype.h>
> stuff, which was ASCII only, whereas isLetter is Unicode style.
Both Haskell functions support non-ASCII chars.
Does it refute your assumption?
Thanks
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