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Abigail wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 04:27:39PM -0700, Karl Williamson wrote: >> What of the following is still true? >> >> One can have UTF-8 in identifier names, but not in package/class or >> subroutine names. While some limited functionality towards this does >> exist as of Perl 5.8.0, that is more accidental than designed; use of >> UTF-8 for the said purposes is unsupported. >> >> One reason of this unfinishedness is its (currently) inherent >> unportability: since both package names and subroutine names may need >> to be mapped to file and directory names, the Unicode capability of >> the filesystem becomes important-- and there unfortunately aren't >> portable answers. >> > > > The case-sensitivity of the underlaying filesystem is important too, > but that has never stopped us from allowing the use of both upper > and lower case characters in package names. For the systems which > do have a case sensitive filesystem, it's just too luring. how about null sub names? I wonder why the attached file isn't a syntax error. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\p523\src>perl t.pl Undefined subroutine &main:: called at t.pl line 2. C:\p523\src> -----------------------------------------------------------------------Thread Previous | Thread Next