--- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:28:31AM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: > : David Wheeler wrote: > : > : >But the first person to write <[a...]> gets what's comin' to 'em. > : > : Is that nothing (since '.' lt 'a'), or everything after 'a'? > > Might as well make it everything after 'a' for consistency. One > could also view the last dot as a special version of the ordinary > "any" dot, and read it "a to whatever". > > Larry
I think that if we're looking for consistency, the default should be to read it as "a and everything after it". If someone wants "a to whatever", they should write it <[a..\.]> since it's a pretty odd fringe case. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide