On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:11:33AM -0800, Bill Ward wrote:
>> >  String::Overlay
>> >  String::Overlaid
>> >  String::Overlays
>> I think Overlain may be more grammatical than Overlaid
>
> Overlaid, Overlain... One of those annoying centuries-old legacies of
> languages. Seems Perl isn't the only language to suffer those ;)
>
>> but I think I prefer MarkUp personally.
>
> Hrm. Well, MarkUp would tend to suggest issues of formatting or
> rendering attributes. That was mostly the use-case I had in mind, but
> only indirectly. Nothing in the implementation directly requires that to
> be the case.

True.  What we really have here is "attributes of substrings" but
that's kinda long.

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