On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Tom Honermann <tom@honermann.net> wrote:

On 07/06/2018 05:16 PM, Hubert Tong wrote:

I am wondering if accepting U+(4-6 hex digits) in \N{...} as Perl does can be considered.

It certainly can be, but what is the motivation given that we already have \u and \U? Why is supporting both \u1234 and \N{U+1234} helpful?

Do stylistic choices count? I happen to like naming Unicode characters as U+NNNN.

There is also a possible semantic difference to explore between \u/\U and \N{U+...}:

The \N form should certainly require that a character is assigned in Unicode; however, I think assigning a more "raw" meaning to \u/\U could make sense.

Tom.