On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:50:05PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 02:27 PM 3/23/2001 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >   DS> U doesn't really signal "glyph" to me, but we are sort of limited
> >   DS> in what we have left. We still need a zero-width assertion for
> >   DS> glyph boundary within regexes themselves.
> >
> >how about \C? it doesn't seem to be taken and would mean char boundary (not
> >exactly a glyph but close enough).
> 
> That's got the unfortunate mental association with C's char for lots of 
> folks, and I know I'd probably get it stuck to codepoint rather than glyph 
> if I didn't use it much.

*cough* \C *is* taken.

> >also \U has a meaning in double quotish strings.

"\Uindeed."

> >
> >uri
> >
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