From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 10:34:30 EST
Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 12/12/2003 04:31, Michael Everson wrote:
> > At 12:17 +0000 2003-12-12, Arcane Jill wrote:
> >> And what, I find myself wondering, does "nearly infinite" mean?
> > It means "finite".
>
> Except in the original context it should have meant "infinite", as there
> is actually an infinite number of potential default grapheme clusters.
I really meant "nearly infinite", because even if the potential default
grapheme clusters are "infinite", the actual ones that have meaningful
semantics and effective usage are "finite" (within the finite set of code
points currently assigned in a precise Unicode version), but currently not
precisely enumerable (that's where "nearly infinite" makes sense).
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