On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:24:58AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> difficult feature, is a lot harder than this kind of simple, er, shit.
Actually, when I was first programming Perl after coming from C I was
tripped up by this very difference, and didn't quite understand why \v
wasn't an escape.
I forget what I was using it for. I certainly haven't used vertical tab
in a long time, and even back then I was probably using it for an escape
sequence or something similar rather than as a tab. Perhaps there's
a good reason it wasn't included, perhaps someone reading this thread even
knows what that reason is. Perhaps not, and it would actually be a good
idea to include it in Perl 6 to avoid the kinds of (small) problems I had
with it.
Referring to this RFC as "shit" just because it's simple seems rather harse.
If the big RFCs are like creating new tools in your toolkit, or radically
changing the way they work, this one is like taking out an old tool and filing
off a sharp point from the handle so it doesn't poke you next time you use it.
I can't see that as a bad thing.
--
Jacob Davies
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