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On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 1:23 PM Christian Walde <walde.christian@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:57:39 +0200, John Lightsey <john@nixnuts.net> > wrote: > > > I'd love to see Perl 8 fix [...] Windows support. > > 2 things here: > > 1. Please don't phrase it in a way that implies Perl doesn't support > windows. I've been developing Perl on windows for over a decade and it > works. > > 2. Out of curiosity, what specific points do you care about here? A major one is the inability to use builtin functions (named operators) to work with files. Only file names formed from characters from the Active Code Page can be passed to/received from functions (e.g. open, readdir, stat).Thread Previous | Thread Next