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2009/12/10 Gerard Goossen <gerard@ggoossen.net>: > What I am missing in the dicussion is that on average exists code > would be improved by chaning the semantics, and thus instead of > thinking about possibly breaking 20% of CPAN we are fixing 80% of > CPAN. > Yes I agree. And those crying "yeah but it was documented to behave like X so changing it is bad" have to accept that it DOESNT work like "X" and CANT work like "X" without being buggy. Also, in many cases relating to this subject the docs are just wrong, or misleading or whatever. However it should be remembered that going from the non-unicode world to the unicode one involves breaking a lot previous system invariants (aka laws of the universe). For instance in ascii you can always assume that you can put a case modified version of a string in the same storage as its original, this is most definitely NOT safe in unicode and will/can/could result in buffer overruns as a consequence. Thats just a start. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next