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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-02-09 21:18:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-02-09 22:46:03 -0700 |
| commit | 17a3df4c6a07533e2c03c46fdd27e3ee295d61d0 (patch) | |
| tree | e0ee85739319695ef7c320b28890ad2f49ebade2 /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | 3efe3cb8c0229e34f5e21774151ddbfdcf27adf4 (diff) | |
| download | perl-17a3df4c6a07533e2c03c46fdd27e3ee295d61d0.tar.gz | |
Fix up \cX for 5.14
Throughout 5.13 there was temporary code to deprecate and forbid
certain values of X following a \c in qq strings. This patch fixes
this to the final 5.14 semantics.
These are:
1) a utf8 non-ASCII character will croak. This is the same
behavior as pre-5.13, but it gives a correct error message, rather than
the malformed utf8 message previously.
2) \c{ and \cX where X is above ASCII will generate a deprecated
message. The intent is to remove these capabilities in 5.16. The
original agreement was to croak on above ASCII, but that does violate
our stability policy, so I'm deprecating it instead.
3) A non-deprecated warning is generated for all other \cX; this is the
same as throughout the 5.13 series.
I did not have the tuits to use \c{} as I had planned in 5.14, but \N{}
can be used instead.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlop.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlop.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index eb71b89a83..e11fff2019 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1114,7 +1114,8 @@ L<perlebcdic/OPERATOR DIFFERENCES> for the complete list of what these sequences mean on both ASCII and EBCDIC platforms. Use of any other character following the "c" besides those listed above is -discouraged, and may become deprecated or forbidden. What happens for those +discouraged, and some are deprecated with the intention of removing +those in Perl 5.16. What happens for any of these other characters currently though, is that the value is derived by inverting the 7th bit (0x40). |