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Re: PATCH: [perl #58182] partial, "The Unicode Bug". Add unicode semantics for \s, \w

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
May 18, 2010 11:20
Subject:
Re: PATCH: [perl #58182] partial, "The Unicode Bug". Add unicode semantics for \s, \w
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 17:52, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> I asked Yves privately about this, and he wonders if it is worth trying to
> not break constructs like '/foo/lt +2'

I don't think it's worth it. We should just pick the modifier letters
that make sense and not bend over backwards to be backwards compatible
with a *very* small amount of code out there.

We have to weigh that against all the people that have to recall the
name of these modifiers in the future.

The /k => /p thing was unfortunate enough, but that was for different
reasons. Did we even consider breaking /foo/p() back then? Not that I
recall.

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