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On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:08:40PM -0700, Karl Williamson wrote: > Let me just say that I consider it untenable that the 5.24 Perl would > have 'use 5.16' mean that you get the Unicode version that shipped with > 5.16. I agree with Karl here. The assumption that there is a singleton Unicode are implicit throughout the core's code. I think it would take an 8 figure sum to change this. Not 7. Merely a million dollars (or equivalent) would not be enough to establish and maintain a development organisation with sufficient people of sufficient calibre to learn the core from scratch, and then figure out what needs changing (without breaking anything else, and without forcing a standstill on all other ongoing work), within any meaningfully short timescale. Hence untenable. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next