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From:
Juerd Waalboer
Date:
April 12, 2007 13:53
Subject:
Re: perlrebackslash
Message ID:
20070412205151.GL21146@c4.convolution.nl
Glenn Linderman skribis 2007-04-12 12:51 (-0700):
> >C<\C> always matches a single octet, even if the source string is encoded
> >in UTF-8 format, and the character to be matched is a multi-octed 
> >character.
> >C<\C> is new in perl5.10.
> >Mnemonic: oI<C>tet.
> multi-octet ?  rather than multi-octed ?

I'd rather see \C removed completely. It breaks any string model. Both
the text/binary one, and the fully-abstracted one.

Can anyone come up with a acceptable use of \C?
-- 
korajn salutojn,

  juerd waalboer:  perl hacker  <juerd@juerd.nl>  <http://juerd.nl/sig>
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