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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
December 7, 2008 00:32
Subject:
Re: RFC: Consolidated proposal for octals like \400 in strings.Was: PATCH [perl #59342] chr(0400)
Message ID:
20081207083247.GA6312@klangraum.plasmasturm.org
* Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> [2008-12-06 02:05]:
> If the old behaviour is potentially used somewhere but
> considered confusing or broken, it seems more reasonable to
> make people wanting the new behaviour ask for it than to make
> people update old scripts they haven't changed since
> perl-5.XXX.

Not at the cost of forever forcing everyone who writes new
scripts to know a bunch of arcana (or at least learn a rote
incantation) to unbreak Perl.

Is there a plan that some features will eventually be enabled
by default?

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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