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