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> Date.new("2016-07\x[308]-05").perl
Cannot convert string to number: trailing characters after number in '0^7?'
(indicated by ^)
in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1
It is quite correct that this should error, but the error message isn't
as good as the one elicited by using a more mundane non-digit:
> Date.new("2016-0z-05").perl
Invalid Date string '2016-0z-05'; use yyyy-mm-dd instead
in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1
Obviously this happens because the digit with the diacritic matches /\d/,
so Date.new thinks it's a digit that it can use, but the subsequent
coercion doesn't actually accept it. Either Date.new's syntax checking
needs to get stricter or its coercion needs to get more permissive.
-zefram
