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

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Zefram
Date:
May 19, 2010 09:15
Subject:
Re: PATCH: [perl #58182] partial, "The Unicode Bug". Add unicodesemantics for \s, \w
Message ID:
20100519161447.GO20797@lake.fysh.org
Eric Brine wrote:
>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.

I thought that was implicit, and very obviously so, in the definition
of -E.  It's the inherent tradeoff, the price one pays for having such
a short shorthand.  But I wouldn't object to it being made explicit.

-zefram

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