Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from April 2011
Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote
on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:49:39 EDT:
>> What I think should happen for 5.16 is [for quotemeta] to just not quote
>> anything above 127, under any conditions.
>>
> Without a backwards incompatible change, that restricts regex meta chars to
> ASCII. Short term, doesn't matter. Long term, who knows.
What's wrong with quotemeta() someday changing to quote say, \p{Pattern_Syntax}
character if and when Perl makes use of them? The idea is that if Perl
changes, that quotemeta() has to change to keep up with it. What's
so wrong with that?
--tom
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next