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[perl #9360] Interaction of \U/\L and \u/\l escapes are undocumented

From:
Karl Williamson via RT
Date:
August 10, 2016 22:03
Subject:
[perl #9360] Interaction of \U/\L and \u/\l escapes are undocumented
Message ID:
rt-4.0.24-20376-1470866617-1807.9360-15-0@perl.org
On Mon Jul 04 18:31:20 2016, dcollinsn@gmail.com wrote:
> It seems to me that we should at least document this behavior and test
> for it. Since changing it now could affect existing code, and
> evidently is not easy (since the tokenizer implements them as uc() and
> lcfirst(), it would take a significant overhaul to change this
> behavior), we should resolve the documentation ambiguity. This patch
> does so, and adds a test.

Please read the thread beginning at 
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/01/msg181429.html

I'm unsure as to the right course.
-- 
Karl Williamson

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