Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input]

* Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> [2012-03-04 10:55]:
> Suppose it were a fatal error to read from a multibyte-encoded string
> while $/ was set to a number. What would be wrong with that?

Good question. My first answer was that so it seemed like a waste of an
opportunity to do something helpful. Now that I have seen the problems
with trying to help, the explicitness it forces on the user seems like
a feature to me instead of a weakness.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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