On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote:
>> Jon Lang wrote:
>>>>  Pattern to split on (used with -a).  Substitutes an expression for the 
>>>> default
>>>>  split function, which is C<{split ' '}>.  Accepts unicode strings (as 
>>>> long as
>>>
>>> Should the default pattern be ' ', or should it be something more like 
>>> /\s+/?
>>
>> /<ws>/ ?
>
> You guys are all doing P5Think.  The default should be autocomb, not 
> autosplit,
> and the default comb is already correct...

In that case, the -a option needs to be renamed to autocomb, rather
than autosplit as it is now.

-- 
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

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