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Juerd Waalboer wrote:
> [snip]
>
> These "posix" constructs have for a long time been documented as
> *equivalent* to \d, \s and \w, with two remarks: [[:space:]] also
> includes \cK and [[:word:]] doesn't even exist in POSIX.
>
> Changing them is as bad as changing the metacharacters. Changing them to
> break the equivalency might even be worse.
>
> Also, note that perlre calls this "POSIX character class **syntax**"
> (emphasis mine).
>
> An even stronger argument is that perlre defines equivalence with
> \p{...}, and explicitly mentions that these are Unicode constructs.
Just so everything is exposed, an argument the other way is that Punct
is very different between Posix and Unicode, in the ASCII range.
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