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On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 11:24:08AM -0600, karl williamson wrote: > I've been working on adding the regex modifiers for > unicode/locale/traditional semantics; and am almost ready. > I'm finally catching up on p5p after YAPC. After reading the entire thread, I can't say I really see the benefits of the proposed (?~) construct. Sure, with enough imagination, one can think of obscure contructs that will break. OTOH, in the past, I've written code that actually scans for (?xism:) constructs and modifies them. Such code would break if (?xism:) is going to be replaced with (?~:). I also don't really like the idea of "just enable whatever is the default on the current version of Perl". '(?si-xm:)' tells me exactly what's enabled, and what's disabled, regardless of the Perl version. (?~) doesn't tell me that. I think the discussion ended with "let's not do it". If not, consider this a -1. AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next