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[I'm desperately behind on mail and working through my backlog as fast as I can. There are many very, very important issues raised by the 25 messages in this thread still in my inbox.] On Sep 13, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: > On 09/12/2011 10:28 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote: >> If there is no "use v5.xx" line at the top of the code, the runtime >> should act as it did on v5.14 without a use v5.14 line. > > Does that mean that without a 'use' line that the Unicode version will be the one that is in 5.14? I did give myself that escape hatch of "wherever possible" for this stuff. I'm given to understand that the work to get Perl to support multiple implementations of Unicode in the same runtime is probably further toward the "not" end of the "wherever possible" spectrum and that this would likely be a case where we'd be best served by relying on the Unicode Consortium's own backward-compatibility promises. I don't know that it's worth spending a lot of time exploring the nuances of this one until we have an upgraded version of Unicode that breaks something new and exciting that we can't possibly live without. -JesseThread Previous | Thread Next