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

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