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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: upcoming perl v5.12 requirement...
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:18:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220213101802.GA18993@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211108183859.GA25072@dcvr>

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> That's nice, as is //a for ASCII-only matches.

No, //a is actually Perl 5.14+

> > I'm not yet sure about the "unicode_strings" feature bit...
> 
> This requires much care on our part, unfortunately.

Yeah, unicode_strings is why I won't bother switching existing
<= 5.10.1 codebases to 5.12+.  Way too many gotchas and
potential bugs with that.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-02-13 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-13 19:29 [PATCH] doc: technical/whyperl: update w/ (good) news from PSC Eric Wong
2021-04-13 19:44 ` upcoming perl v5.12 requirement Eric Wong
2021-04-13 21:17   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-04-14  0:25     ` Eric Wong
2021-11-08 18:38   ` Eric Wong
2022-02-13 10:18     ` Eric Wong [this message]

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