Hi folks, At 2025-12-02T00:45:19-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Werner seems not to be available, as it's now 2 weeks since I lit up > the bat-signal, and I haven't heard his cape flutter yet. > > I suggest that it falls to us (and any interested list subscribers) to > find the way forward. > > (But I'm still CCing him, just in case.)
As I just got done saying in Savannah #67571, Dave was right and I was wrong, as regards Werner's design intentions, which were crystal clear once I found the correct commit initially implementing character classes and the (then) new `charinfo::get_flags()` member function. A later optimization had made the logic obscure to me. Unfortunately this discovery doesn't resolve the actual bug Dave reported, which isn't a fresh development but is observable at least as far back as groff 1.22.3.[1] On the bright side, that means this issue can't gate the groff 1.24.0 release, and everybody has more time to talk me down from my mad reformist ideas. Meanwhile, the liquid I pour repeatedly between two beakers in my laboratory froths with increasing vigor... Regards, Branden [1] But I have a hypothesis I'll pursue.
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