On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:01:12PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> In Perl 5 ASCII 0 bytes are valid in source code. As they're not identifier
> characters [ :-) ] this means that they're valid as quoting characters for
> things like q{}.
> [...]
> I'm assuming that the insides of the Perl 6 compiler are going to be
> equally agnostic of ASCII 0 bytes.
Yes, I would expect so, although I hadn't thought of using ASCII 0 as
quoting characters -- that's a neat trick. I'll keep it in mind as we
progress. :-)
Pm
