Re: ToObject "preamble" Parameter

On Sep 28, 2004, at 6:12 AM, Jonathan Swartz wrote:

> I haven't been following this closely, but as far as that last
> suggestion - oh lord, please no. I'd almost rather implement a use_utf8
> flag. :)
>
> Seriously, is it something that more and more peple are going to need 
> to do?

Yes, it is, because you either have to use it throughout your 
application or not use it at all. And if you have UTF-8 encoded text 
and need to use length() or stubtr(), then you *must* decode all of 
your strings to Perl's internal utf8 format. C<use utf8;> does that 
automatically.

But I'm also fine to turn the "preamble" parameter into a true 
preamble--that is, something that executes even before %once. That 
means that I can add C<use utf8;> myself, but that $m won't be 
available in the preamble. But frankly, I'd be happy if $m was 
available in %once blocks, too (for functional processing or even 
scomp(), but not output).

Regards,

David



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