On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:34:18PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > 242-243 is testing legacy EBCDIC range gap hack, and is probably broken
> > > by "use re 'asciirange'" which made other tests work ;-).
>
> At least one EBCDIC range hack never was in fact implemented, but I
> recently added tests for it: the difference between a range i-j and
> its explicit numeric counterpart. If specified in the first way, it
> should match only letters i and j, NOT the gap characters (this we
> have implemented, have had for quite some time), but if in the second
> way, it should match also the gap characters (this we do not have yet,
> and never had).
Well, I just realized "never had" was too strong: we had exactly this
functionality *before* we introduced the gap-hopping hack for the
first case :-)
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