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Felipe Gasper wrote: >so couldn't any existing code be rectified? Ah, not sounding so opt-in now. We prefer to keep existing Perl code running. And no, existing code can't necessarily be `rectified' to work with a character/octet type distinction. It's not so much the code that's the issue as the APIs: the type distinction would have to be introduced into most existing APIs (most involve strings in some capacity), requiring every module author to decide new semantics for their API. What really wouldn't work is APIs that currently generate strings that are useful both as character strings and as octet strings, and which are currently, correctly, used both ways by callers. Introducing the type distinction would make such usage impossible. -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next