On 2005-02-22 at 15:47:08, Larry Wall wrote:
>Maybe \x is short for \0x and that also gives us \0o, \0d and \0b,
>plus any other radix we come up with, assuming we decide it isn't
>overly ambiguous with bare \0.
Works for me. So when you really do want a \0 in the middle of a string
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: Incidentally, will \o, \x, and the hypothetical \d still work without
: curlies for a certain number of digits but require curlies for larger
: numbers? I'd rather see consistency there.
Well, we switched to square brackets for those
On 2005-02-22 at 14:26:04, Juerd wrote:
>I think \777 should be chr(777). As should \0d777, should you want to
>document that it's really not octal. (Important mostly the first year
>after the first release.)
I don't think you can assume it'll only be confusing for a year. For
one thi
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:37:21 -0800, "Larry Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> or our great-grandchildren
> will curse our lack of foresight.
>
> Larry
It won't matter then anyway...Perl 25 code will come straight from our
brainwaves:
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__...---'-`---...__
_===
Uri Guttman skribis 2005-02-22 14:41 (-0500):
> in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea
In a rule, whitespace is a very good disambiguator.
> it would be better to require \0d.
I think nullbyte-d is rather likely to occur.
> why would we need 0d123 as a literal?
Symmetry.
0x10
> "J" == Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> And for symmetry, can we get 0d and \d for decimal, for those cases
J> where you want to be explicit?
in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea. it would be better
to require \0d. the others also need a base designator character so
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:40:23AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that
: octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should
: 0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does
: \777 mean in a
Luke Palmer skribis 2005-02-22 11:40 (-0700):
> Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that
> octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should
> 0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does
> \777 mean in a string?
And fo
