Juerd Waalboer wrote: > Abigail skribis 2008-10-10 22:07 (+0200): >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:26PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote: >>> Joshua Juran skribis 2008-10-10 11:32 (-0700): >>>> Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the >>>> alphabetic code points are non-contiguous. >>> Well, that's not true for perl of course, which tries to be smart and >>> has special cased simple letter ranges. >> I'm sure there's at least one hacker who hates perl for exactly that reason. > > So you really believe there's still at least one EBCDIC perl user out there?
Frighteningly enough, yes. Some guys at IBM in China. http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-11/msg00265.html http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-11/msg00102.html http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-11/msg00101.html http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-11/msg00100.html http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-11/msg00099.html http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-11/msg00009.html -- Whip me, beat me, make my code compatible with VMS!
