Incredible discovery: among the many Unicode properties of characters, one of them describes delimiter pairs such as "(" and ")".
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Incredible discovery: among the many Unicode properties of characters, one of them describes delimiter pairs such as "(" and ")".
And turns out, Unicode says
is a valid delimiter pair.Edit: alas, I was wrong. Perl defined them as paired delimiters in its experimental feature, but Unicode itself does not specify those characters are mirrored delimiters
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@danderson can't wait to see this used in a programming language instead of curly braces
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@feld I'm told that Perl supports it, albeit as an experimental feature.
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@[email protected] That would be amazing, but I don't see it in BidiBrackets.txt?
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@neia Argh did I get misled by Perl? Their list of delimiters gave me the impression they'd grabbed the list direct from Unicode, but perhaps they extended it
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@neia Yup, you're right, those characters don't have the mirror property defined
Damnit, what a lost opportunity.
