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From:
Sawyer X
Date:
November 6, 2016 15:39
Subject:
Re: Does the range operator still have the Unicode Bug?
Message ID:
98335726-d96e-b2a4-e2bd-1443ef117844@gmail.com

On 11/02/2016 02:11 AM, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> Sawyer asked, in response to Aristotle's question:
>>> But using the feature mechanism in any way for this would mean having to
>>> preserve both code paths going forward: it makes the codebase worse, not
>>> better.
>> Why would it mean that?
> Any time that we have to preserve two code paths, we make more room
> for bugs.

What I meant was "Why would using the feature mechanism require both
code paths?"

As far as I understand it, we have two existing code paths:

* Default behavior
* "use feature 'unicode_strings'

My question was regarding adding this additional fix to unicode_strings.

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