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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] grëp (rhymes with creep) and cptmp
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:32:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <71b1e3b728efbd1b2a2ae2b5b4e2b1d0@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d50d7d460911300710u697638cxf890f10283ee3a44@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon Nov 30 10:13:09 EST 2009, jason.catena@gmail.com wrote:
> > it turns out that doing regular expressions is difficult, since
> > it's not clear to me what [a-z] should match when unfolded.
>
> I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this memory
> is too narrow to contain.
>
> 209 runes in an unfolded a-Ǯ superclass later...
> 12498: signal: sys: segmentation violation

size isn't the real issue.  the real issue is determining what
the ranges are for other than the base character.  if a maps
to [aa'...] and z maps to [zz'...]  it's not clear that [a'-z'] is a
sensible set.  for example what does [e-f] map to?  [e-f], clearly
but [ë-what?]

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-30 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<d50d7d460911292352j7cbcbc7erefa21b3b7f29f20a@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-30 13:50 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-30 14:48   ` roger peppe
2009-11-30 14:54     ` David Leimbach
2009-11-30 15:10   ` Jason Catena
2009-11-30 15:32     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-11-30 15:54       ` Jorden Mauro
2009-11-30 16:00         ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-30 18:38           ` hiro
2009-11-30 19:43           ` Jorden Mauro
     [not found] <<df49a7370911300648l5e243b12ncdf6de116d81afa9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-30 15:28 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-30 16:38   ` roger peppe
2009-11-30 17:34     ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<df49a7370911300326m3e3a6be1yc77e49a2b23a6da2@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-30 14:06 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<d50d7d460911291101k7420eb0fna61f87646606e991@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-30  4:29 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-30  7:52   ` Jason Catena
2009-11-30  9:00     ` Eris Discordia
2009-11-29 19:01 Jason Catena
2009-11-30  4:51 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-11-30 11:26 ` roger peppe

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