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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: Re: upcoming perl v5.12 requirement...
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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.