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Re: RFC: Autoloading charnames

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
November 23, 2011 05:37
Subject:
Re: RFC: Autoloading charnames
Message ID:
14105.1322055459@chthon
> I'd say lets make charnames behave at least like utf8:

> $ perl -wlE'say utf8::is_utf8("\x{20ac}")'
> 1

> See, no use and still available. If \N{} autoloads charnames (and I am
> fully in favor), so should charnames::viacode

> One more reason for doing so is that charnames cannot be backported and
> is not available on CPAN. It is very tightly coupled to the current core

That does seem a strong argument in support of the idea.

--tom

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