On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:26PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote: > Joshua Juran skribis 2008-10-10 11:32 (-0700): > > Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the > > alphabetic code points are non-contiguous. > > Well, that's not true for perl of course, which tries to be smart and > has special cased simple letter ranges.
I'm sure there's at least one hacker who hates perl for exactly that reason. Abigail