[perl #73192] [BUG] The \123 form doesn't give an error anymore in strings in Rakudo

[jn...@jnthn.net via RT]

On Mon Mar 01 06:21:04 2010, masak wrote:
> <colomon> S02-literals/char-by-number.t has that in a eval_dies_ok
> test.... master just seems to shrug and get on with life instead of
> dying.
> <colomon> rakudo: say "\123"
> <p6eval> rakudo 588a34: OUTPUT«\123␤»
> <m-locks> oh noes
> <masak> alpha: "\123"
> <p6eval> alpha 30e0ed: OUTPUT«\123 form deprecated, use \o123 instead
[...]
> * masak submits rakudobug
Both STD and Rakudo now report "Unrecognized backslash sequence"; giving
to moritz++ to check test coverage.

Thanks,

Jonathan