[erlang-questions] string:lexeme/s2 - an old man's rant

[lloyd@REDACTED]

Hi,

This has come up before with various work-arounds suggested. Apologies for this old-man's rant, but every time I run across the impending death of string:tokens/2 to the glory of string:lexemes/2 my blood pressure rises.

I HATE IT. I HATE IT. I HATE IT, not least because the terms lexeme and grapheme are ugly inside-baseball words. Reading the docs, I have to do a Google search to understand what these obscure terms are referring to-- precious time wasted. And with my waning years, I don't have time to waste.

Even my spell-checker doesn't recognize them.

I get the desirability of welcoming unicode into Erlang. But can't we come up with friendlier nomenclature or, at least revise the docs so they don't sound like copy-and-paste out a academic linguistics journal? 

Grrr.

LRP


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