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From:
Abigail
Date:
April 12, 2007 14:01
Subject:
Re: perlrebackslash
Message ID:
20070412210113.GC4231@abigail.nl
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:51:51PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
> 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?
Yves pointed out that \C was actually already introduced in 5.8.
Removing wouldn't be possible without a deprecation cycle.
Abigail
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