On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Zefram <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> It is less than awesome that > Perl 6 accepts "foo\x[0]bar" as a pathname, when it doesn't resemble > any pathname valid on the OS > It's also less than awesome that POSIX, at least, doesn't let you confirm that a filename is syntactically valid, either on the OS or on a specific filesystem. And hardcoding that knowledge into Perl (any version) would be a severe mistake. The code is a "bug" but Perl cannot be prescient for you, or hack the kernel and filesystem drivers to find out what is valid. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
