On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:59:06 -0600, Karl Williamson
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Perl now will compile and run on z/OS, requiring a couple of 
> work-arounds to do so.  It fails our tests massively, and there are 
> clearly a number of things wrong.  But I believe it is basically working 
> except for Unicode and /i regular expression matching.  John and I are 
> continuing to plug away at it.
> 
> Many of the tests are written so that no non-ASCII platform could 
> succeed, so that its failing them badly is not indicative of how well it 
> really works.

Chapeau! Well done both of you.

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