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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: RFC: $/="\R"; perl -0R
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:43:20 +0200
From: Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com>
To: Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>
On 15.07.2013 17:30, Karl Williamson wrote:
>
> I propose to allow $/ to be settable to a special value that indicates
> to use the official Unicode record separators.
> Setting
>
> $/ = "\R";
>
> would be the programmatic way of doing this. This, however, is legal to
> do now, setting the separator to a capital letter R, but it raises a
> warning: "Unrecognized escape \R passed through".
What would "\R" mean? I.e. what would be returned for length("\R"),
ord("\R"), sprintf("%vd", "\R")?
I believe
$/ = \"R";
is "available" - in the sense that it introduces no new syntax/values;
it just introduces another value that is meaningful in $/.
--
Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com>