Re: should we change [^a-z] to <-[a..z]> instead of <-[a-z]>?

Aaron Sherman wrote in perl.perl6.language :
>
> A silly question: is there a canonical character set from which we
> extract these ranges? Are we hard-coding Unicode here, or is there some
> way for the user to specify the character set for ranges?

Perl 5 forces [a-z] (or [i-j] for that matter) to be a range of
lowercase alphabetic characters, even on EBCDIC platforms (where it's
not).

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