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

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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
May 19, 2010 07:32
Subject:
Re: PATCH: [perl #58182] partial, "The Unicode Bug". Add unicode semantics for \s, \w
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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:34 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

> Only nit is i think covered by the -E option which implies a use LATEST;
> right?
>

hum, neither perlrun nor feature mention the problem with backwards
compatibility of using -E. Maybe something like the following (but I'm not
fully awake yet):

Since L<feature> is used to introduce features that are not backwards
compatible, using C<< -E'...' >> instead of C<< -e'use 5.014; ...' >> may
result in broken code when Perl is upgraded.

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