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From:
Brian Fraser
Date:
November 26, 2011 14:48
Subject:
Re: RFC: fc keyword API
Message ID:
CA+nL+nasLqzc-3JucMZ4r2qguBou82+arb+sQa2-rbwO6URc9A@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:

> > All the options provided rely on the feature pragma. Using feature to
> > provide fc is fine, but using feature to configure the algorithm used by
> fc
> > seems inappropriate to me.
>
> > If someone needs simple fc instead of full fc, they can grab it from a
> > module, and the module doesn't even need to be in core.
>
> That is my position as well.
>
> Or they could just roll their own using Unicode::UCD.
> It's really not that hard.
>
> --tom
>

As expected, the support for simple folding is overwhelming! :P

I just pushed a version to github that removes those two features, as well
as the checks in pp_fc. If there's a sudden unexpected reversal, they are
in git's history anyway, and could be brought back to life.


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