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2009/10/18 karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>: > demerphq wrote: >> >> I have basically fixed the failing new tests. >> >> I have not uploaded the fix because these fixes break other tests, and >> so far I havent been able to review them all for correctness and fix >> them or their underlying breakage. >> >> Also, I start to doubt the tenability of this path. Making \d mean >> [0-9] seems to me to be clear (please speak up if anyone disagree). >> Making \w have the strict [A-Za-z0-9_] behavior by default is looking >> less sensible than it seemed at first. > > Please elaborate, cause it still seems very sensible to me. The branch i pushed fully implements the agreed apon behaviour. Look at the number of failing tests, and tests I had to patch. That gives an idea of the impact on our community, in particular the ones who don't use English as a native language. I think i unrealistically underestimated how much impact this would have. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next