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Re: regular expressions in Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck McManis)
Tue Sep 26 22:40:43 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:49:41 -0700
From: cmcmanis@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, Glen.Perkins@NativeGuide.com
>Several people have pointed out how valuable unicode-savvy regular
>expressions would be to Java, but the Java team never responds to this
>question. I wish they would.
Ok, I'm on the Java team, I don't have a *CLUE* how one could express
a regular expression that would cull Thai and Korean strings from
a generic set of unicode strings.
>Or maybe the answer is, "Not now, not ever, and this is why...." There
>could be a lot of very good reasons. You haven't hesitated to share your
>reasons for not including various other language features.
I think the folks should take silence to mean "Gee, that's an idea amongst
the eight bazillion that we can't just pop off an answer to." It neither
endorses nor condemns the idea. I can also say that it would be MUCH
more productive to have the dialog start with "These are my ideas for
a regular expression syntax to deal with unicode." UNICODE hacking is
an art that, when jumped into lightly, bites one in the more sensistive
parts.
We would LOVE to have an RE languge for UNICODE, but its down somewhere
below the Mac port I believe in priority. (No, I can't tell you when you
can get the Mac port either :-()
--Chuck
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