On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:41:40PM -0700, Hong Zhang wrote:
>
> We should let external collator to handle all these fancy features.
> People can always normalize/canonicalize/do-whatever-you-want
> and send the result text/binary to regex. All the features we
> argue about here can be easily done by a customized collator.
>
> Do NOT expect the Perl regex be a linguist that can understand
> every language in the world and be able to match my name in
> English and Chinese :-) (Of course, that will be a useful
> feature for me.)
>
> Please note regex is O(n) at best, adding an external collator
> will make is O(2n). Put fancy unicode feature into regex will
> not make it any faster.
>
> My recommendation is to keep regex locale independent. And
I think this is the path of wisdom, too.
> have some API for handling locale specific features, though
> I am not sure what is the best way to do this.
User definable character classes and assertions.
> Hong
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