>>>>> "J" == Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> And for symmetry, can we get 0d and \d for decimal, for those cases J> where you want to be explicit? in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea. it would be better to require \0d. the others also need a base designator character so decimals don't need a shortcut. and why would we need 0d123 as a literal? there are no ambiguities and decimal is the simple and obvious default. i just don't think we need symmetry in all possible cases. J> I think \777 should be chr(777). As should \0d777, should you want to J> document that it's really not octal. (Important mostly the first year J> after the first release.) too much history with \777 being octal. i think that should be a compile time error (die) as it is illegal. but p5 currently just stops parsing when it sees an out of range char. this is a silent bug IMO. at least a warning should be generated. but the other side will want support for a single char value and not requiring leading pad 0's. perl -e'print "\xQW"' | od -c 0000000 \0 Q W perl -e'print "\xaQW"' | od -c 0000000 \n Q W perl -e'print "\777"' | od -c 0000000 307 277 i don't know what is happening there. so if you have no valid value chars or are out of range (as with \777), then i would want to know as i made a mistake. leading pad 0's can be skipped if some legal value is found. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
