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Re: On dual-living Unicode::GCString in v5.16

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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
October 31, 2011 16:01
Subject:
Re: On dual-living Unicode::GCString in v5.16
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:
> I came to the conclusion that Unicode::GCString should be in the core after I
> found that in the new book we had referenced that CPAN module far more often
> than any other CPAN module: fifteen separate times, to be precise. That's
> because nailing grapheme processing in core Perl ranges from tricky to virtually
> impossible without it.
>
> I realize that we are trying to pare down the core, but in this instance I
> believe a cogent and convincing argument can be made that inclusion of
> Unicode::GCString in that core enhances it.  I think we should include
> Unicode::GCString with the core v5.16 release.  Here's why.

I kind of like this suggestion. Have you discussed this with the
module's author?

Leon

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