Re: AI 2000-05-010: proposed interface

[Ulrich Drepper <yyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Korn <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I believe that it would be a bit more complicated to use with strseq()
> However, I believe that it would require two calls to this
> function to test if a character is in the range, not 1 as with colseq().

I would never implement the range expression matching with any of
these interfaces.  When implementing it in the libc I have access to
the internal data structures.  This is obviously how everybody else
did it since there is no interface like this so far. The additional
interface is meant to provide the user a possibility to learn about
the collation sequence.  This can be done either way as well, I just
think that one normally will find some kind of input text which then
is sorted and examined.

Anyway, if we cannot agree here there is nothing easier than writing
down a second proposal.

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