Re: QT4CG meeting 069 draft minutes, 12 March 2024

> I dislike the `()` argument just as much as you do, but I dislike even
more the idea of
>  shipping a function library that looks like each function was designed
> by a different person using different criteria.

No, it would look like that the function library is being designed by
people who care about the user, and who learn from their past mistakes and
improve their work.

Thanks,
Dimitre

> This function can easily handle strings - produce a "string complement" in
> the value space for a particular collation.
>
> For a simplified example, revert("abc") would produce "zyx" . This is
> doable and really valuable.
>
>
> I might well have raised the idea. But I'm not actually sure how you would
> implement it: what would `revert("")` produce that sorts after revert($X)
> applied to any other string $X?
>
>
> Not anything personal, but as a future user of this function I would hate
> to enter unnecessarily *() *for the collations argument, every time I
> call this function.
>
>
> I dislike the `()` argument just as much as you do, but I dislike even
> more the idea of shipping a function library that looks like each function
> was designed by a different person using different criteria.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>



On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 5:08 PM Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:

>
> This function can easily handle strings - produce a "string complement" in
> the value space for a particular collation.
>
> For a simplified example, revert("abc") would produce "zyx" . This is
> doable and really valuable.
>
>
> I might well have raised the idea. But I'm not actually sure how you would
> implement it: what would `revert("")` produce that sorts after revert($X)
> applied to any other string $X?
>
>
> Not anything personal, but as a future user of this function I would hate
> to enter unnecessarily *() *for the collations argument, every time I
> call this function.
>
>
> I dislike the `()` argument just as much as you do, but I dislike even
> more the idea of shipping a function library that looks like each function
> was designed by a different person using different criteria.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>

-- 
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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