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

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Date:
May 18, 2010 13:04
Subject:
Re: PATCH: [perl #58182] partial, "The Unicode Bug". Add unicode semantics for \s, \w
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On 18 May 2010 21:30, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote:
> Neither of those arguments suggest that this is a case when we should
> break backward compatibility gratuitously.

We shall have to agree to disagree that this is gratuitous breakage. I
think thats going far too far.

> We may well be unable to do this cleanly and sanely. But that's a very
> different sort of argument.

Basically we only have to worry about 'l' because of 'le', and 'f'
because of 'if'. Any others?

And actually it occurs to me that we can safely bypass the whole
problem by using capitals :-)

cheers,
yves



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