On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:14:40PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote: > Abigail skribis 2008-10-10 22:07 (+0200): > > 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. > > So you really believe there's still at least one EBCDIC perl user out there?
That would assume everyone who hates a piece of software also (still) uses that software. Abigail
