> logical semantics for this would be rather ... odd. What should
> "a"..chr(0x100) generate, for example?
The above would be strange because there are non-\w characters in that
range, so it's kind of like the range numerically but with holes.
Even stranger would be
"a"..chr(0x100).chr(0x100)
I
Dan Kogai wrote:
>
> Sorry, my finger has slipped.
>
> On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 22:48 Asia/Tokyo, Dan Kogai wrote:
>
> On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 04:10 Asia/Tokyo, Blair Zajac wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have several self compiled copies of Perl 5.8.0, one of which is
> > compiled to be st
>> Can something be set in the script to make it work as expected?
>>
>> An observation; UTF-8 keys in a hash can be defined without
>> quotation:
>>
>> %myHash =(
>>=> "this",
>>=> "that",
>> : : :
>> );
>>
>> but later the keys must be referenced in quoted form. T
I verified the intent from Larry, and ".." is definitely (and will be,
at least in Perl 5) only ever meant for doing the expansion on the
"A".."Z", "a".."z" (and "0..9") ranges.
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