Re: Perl6 regexes and UTS#18

2011-02-09 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Larry Wall wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 08:59:51PM +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: : Tom Christiansen wrote: : > I'm also curious whether there are active plans to address the : > tr18 requirements in perl6 regexes. It would be a wonderful : > feather in perl6's cap to be able to legiti

Re: Perl6 regexes and UTS#18

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 08:59:51PM +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: : Tom Christiansen wrote: : > Has anybody specifically looked at how Perl6 regexes might map to : > the various requirements of UTS#18, Unicode Regular Expressions? : > : > http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/ : : Roughly Perl6

Re: Perl6 regexes and UTS#18

2011-02-06 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Tom Christiansen wrote: > Has anybody specifically looked at how Perl6 regexes might map to > the various requirements of UTS#18, Unicode Regular Expressions? > > http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/ Roughly Perl6 supports Level 2 (I did a fast check of UTS#18 and the specs). > I ask because to