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From:
jesse
Date:
October 27, 2009 18:31
Subject:
Rule 1 has been invoked [Re: What should \s \w \d match in 5.12?]
Message ID:
20091028013141.GH22548@bestpractical.com
Tonight on #perl6, Larry made a fairly definitive statement about \w
matching and unicode:

 20:50 <@TimToady> it's terribly bad Huffman coding to restrict \w to ascii
 20:50 <@TimToady> obra__: see ^^
 20:50 <@TimToady> please kill that idea
 20:51 <@TimToady> Perl 5 must not revert to ASCII semantics where we've been
                   gaining ground on Unicode for many years.

So. Now we know where we're aiming. How good are our tests? ;)
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