Re: What should /\08/ match and do?

[email protected] (Eric Brine)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:45 AM, demerphq <[email protected]> wrote:

> IMO these days octal, and any other non parenthesized code-like
> escapes should be deprecated.
>

A stylistic warning in ambiguous cases (like Abigail's "/\08/ interpreted as
/\x{00}8/" warning) sounds like a good idea, but not a *deprecation*
warning. That would mean we're planning on removing octal support from Perl,
and I haven't heard any reasons for doing that. Does supporting octal
escapes cause maintenance problems?

- Eric "ikegami" Brine
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