On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:42:16PM -0500, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:12, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: > snip > > Also, Perl 6 already provides a 'digit' rule by default, although > > it's digits in the Unicode sense as opposed to simply the 0..9 > > sequence. > snip > > Please tell me that Perl 6 isn't going to make that same error the > Perl 5.8 did.
As far as I know, <alpha> means "Unicode alphabetic", and by analogy one presumes that <digit> is "Unicode digit". > Or at least tell me that it will provide two classes: > Unicode digit and digit you can do math with. It's entirely possible that in Perl 6 one can "do math" with strings containing Unicode digits, making the distinction somewhat irrelevant, perhaps. (I don't have proof of this, but I suspect it to be the case.) I know that magical string autoincrement honors Unicode digit sequences, at any rate. Pm
