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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 15:57
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 4:09 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 May 2010 18:11, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.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.
> >
> >> One wonders if we should mention that using one liners in production
> >> is not recommended?
> >
> > It's not??
>
> Anyone who has written a book on Perl is excepted from this rule.
>

I don't have any books to my cred, and I use one-liners in batch and bash
scripts.

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