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From:
Zefram
Date:
October 28, 2009 13:41
Subject:
Re: Rule 1 has been invoked [Re: What should \s \w \d match in5.12?]
Message ID:
20091028204120.GZ403@fysh.org
John wrote:
>What do you think extending \w \d and \s will do.

Wrong tense.

The status quo, since 5.8 (with complicated status in 5.6) is that \w and
\s are unusably broken, but attempt to match Unicode character classes.
\d also attempts to match a Unicode character class, and afaik does
so successfully.

-zefram
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