On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Ryan Richter wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:22:42AM -0000, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> >
> > OK, you got me. What is the "?" used for? For example, <?{ $?.pos
> > === $!ws_to }>.
> >
> > I only see that character as used in this manner (a variable name?),
> > never defined (e.g. as a variable or parameter) anywhere.
>
> Something is choking on utf8, it should be a cent sign (242 is octal
> latin1 for '?'). $? is the current match continuation. I don't think
> it's specced, it's just an internal Cursor.pm thing that leaked out into
> STD in a few places (I could be wrong about that, though).
Heh, my reply only makes sense if your mail is first misrendered as
invalid utf8 instead of latin1 which you sent it in... And my reply is
even more screwed up wrt encoding, sorry for the confusion...
-ryan
