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Sawyer,
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 04:25:04PM +0000, Zefram wrote:
> Sawyer X wrote:
> >Sorry. I meant SvPOK.
>
> Are you referring to the use of bitwise ops to determine SvNIOK()?
> Like this:
>
> $ perl -le 'sub st { my($v) = @_; print +($v & "") eq "" ? "string" : "number"; } st(3); $p = "3"; st($p); $p+0; st($p); st("\x{100}")'
> number
> string
> number
> string
>
> In this form it still works on blead. The bitwise operators complain
> if they have to non-trivially operate on an above-Latin-1 character,
> but if the corresponding position in the other string is off the end of
> the string then that's apparently fine.
this ticket is currently marked as a 5.28 blocker. The only reason for
that was your suggestion that ~~ still had a valid use for large-ord
strings, but in the dialogue above you weren't very clear.
Can you confirm (with a clear example), or deny, whether the old behaviour
of bitwise operators (not to die on ord > 0xff) is still needed?
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