I'm tempted to agree with the change suggestion, though within XPath regular expressions, ^ is used for negation, e.g. [^0-9]. And the only programmatic uses of '~' that sprign to mind are in bitwise operations... John On 19/04/2022 12:48, Tom Hillman wrote: > I do not, myself, much care which symbol to use, so long as we are > consistent. > > However, our responsibility in acting as a committee means that I have > to represent not only my own concerns, but those of the user base. > > I think Norm is right that dismissing the experience of users is not > in our best interests; I think it is also ignoring our duty to those > users. > > Particularly when the issue has prompted them to contribute to the list. > > It feels like there are more arguments being presented to use `!` than > there are to use `~`. > > Tom > > _________________ > Tomos Hillman > eXpertML Ltd > +44 7793 242058 > >>> >> >> -- *John Lumley* MA PhD CEng FIEE john@saxonica.com on behalf of Saxonica Ltd
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