Re: any interest in Rational Range Interpretation?

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Paul.

> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:17:48 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: any interest in Rational Range Interpretation?
>
> On 11/28/11 09:36, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > Hi.  Back in the spring we discussed providing Rational Range Interpretation
> > in GNU tools.  I took the plunge with gawk 4.0.
> > 
> > I can provide diffs for grep without much trouble.
> > 
> > Is there still interest in this?  If so, do I need to update the doc too?
>
> *I*'d certainly like to see [a-z] work the way that it did in the
> Good Old Days.  If you provide the code but lack the
> time to do the doc perhaps someone else can do the doc.  Obviously
> we couldn't ship one without the other but the code is a good first step.

I sent code and doc diffs a few days ago to the list.

The silence in reaction was deafening.  :-(

Arnold