Re: [bug-gawk] Does gawk character classes follow this?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Wolfgang Laun <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:40:38 +0100
> 
> With the character data type for any programming language you have these
> two fundamental options: to C or not to C; less poetically: you can base
> your implementation on the C library (GNU C library in gawk's case), or
> roll your own, as Java does. If you go the C way, the language will be the
> tail, and POSIX will, sooner or later, tell you how to wag.

Yeah, and if you go the other way, you get Emacs.  Which is not bad,
either (I love Emacs and use it every day), but do we really want Gawk
to become such a large system?  And who will implement all those
features from scratch in Gawk, anyway?  It took Emacs 12 years to get
that right.