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From:
jesse
Date:
October 3, 2009 18:43
Subject:
Re: What should \s \w \d match in 5.12?
Message ID:
20091004014325.GE6756@bestpractical.com



> There are plans for a pragma for other unicode incompatibilities, and a 
> git branch that includes the beginnings of one: "use legacy".  I had 
> thought that these changes could be controlled by a pragma, and I hope 
> that it is this one.

If the changes will be controlled by a pragma, what's the point of
forcing existing code to 'use legacy' rather than making these changes
part of 'use 5.12'?

We've always had a strong culture of not gratuitously breaking backwards
compatibility.  This seems like a strange thing to choose to throw that
away on.

-Jesse
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