Re: What should /\08/ match and do?
[email protected] (demerphq)
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On 1 June 2010 19:05, Eric Brine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? Any non-parenthesized escape structure using numeric values is a maintenance problem when seen from the point of view of modifying or joining snippets of a regex together. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"