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2009/10/28 demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>: > 2009/10/28 jesse <jesse@fsck.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? ;) >> > > I am *extremely* upset at this. > > Not only was your question not what we propose to do, but the fact > that you didnt discuss it with me, or have this discussion with me > makes me extremely unhappy. > > We have bugs. Bugs cant be resolved by appeal to Larry. > > And since Larry isnt doing the work, and likely *I* will be then I > reckon i should have been included in the discussion. > > Im really tempted to say find yourself another regex engine hacker. And actually, I simply fundamentally reject this as a rule 1 ruling. If you want to get a rule 1 decision on this that I will accept plan to have me in the discussion. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next