Unclear text in the UBA (UAX#9) of Unicode 6.3

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Wed Apr 23 10:25:53 CDT 2014


> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:35:02 -0700
> From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse at ilyaz.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org>, ken at unicode.org, unicode Unicode Discussion
>  <unicode at unicode.org>, James Clark <jjc at jclark.com>
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:06:27AM -0700, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> > if you read UAX#9, the way the algorithm works is by pushing openers
> > on a stack, then, on finding the first closer, going down the stack
> > and attempting to locate a match, then, on finding a match,
> > discarding any enclosed openers, on not finding a match, discarding
> > the closer.
> 
> I think I LOVE this definition.

Probably because you yourself wrote it ;-)

> Simple, beautiful, and IMO following people’s expectations very
> closely.

I see nothing in your definition that is significantly different from
our attempts.  It does feel more complex, mainly because you have much
more conditions, combining which in one's mind might not be easy at
first reading.



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