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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-09-10 22:31:39 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-09-11 09:40:39 -0600
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pods: Discourage use of 'In' prefix for Unicode Block property
This changes perluniprops to not list the equivalent 'In' single form method of specifying the Block property, and to discourage its use. The reason is that this is a Perl extension, the use of which is unstable. A future Unicode release could take over the 'In...' name for a new purpose, and perl would follow along, breaking the code that assumed the former meaning. Unicode does not know about this Perl extension, and they wouldn't care if they did know. The reason I'm doing this now is that the latest Unicode version introduced some properties whose names begin with 'In', though no conflicts arose. But it is clear that such conflicts could arise in the future. So the documentation only is changed to warn people of this potential. perlunicode is update accordingly.
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