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

[Sam Overdorf]

remember "Occam's razor".
I like simple and easy to use myself.

Sam




On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:40 PM <lloyd@REDACTED> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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?
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> Grrr.
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