On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:22:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:04:03AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > > Std.pm allows e.g. > > > > "\x[ 41 , 42 , 43 ]" > > > > For convenience - especially with long charnames - it should be possible > > to write > > > > "\c[ > > SPACE, # blafasel > > LATIN SMALL LETTER A, # some comment > > COMBINING DOT BELOW, # thisandthat > > ]" > > In any case, STD doesn't currently try to check the string in \c[...] > for correctness. It just scans for the closing bracket. We will > certainly need to refine this, and the suggested approach is certainly > a possible outcome, if we decide it's sufficiently unambiguous.
FWIW, Rakudo and PGE now allow spaces inside the brackets, although they don't understand the # ... comments yet. Pm
