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Abigail
Date:
October 27, 2009 18:48
Subject:
Re: Rule 1 has been invoked [Re: What should \s \w \d match in5.12?]
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20091028014819.GB7805@almanda
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:31:41PM -0400, jesse wrote:
> 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? ;)


That's a pity.

But more importantly, did Larry express any sentiment regarding \d?


Abigail
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