Moin, On Tuesday 04 April 2006 01:50, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >OTOH, who still runs pre-5.8.x code deserves what they get. > > > > > >There are horrible bugs in older Perls, and I don't know why people > > >still > > >insist using insecure, buggy and feature-lacking code like 5.6. or > > > even gasp 5.004. Just think "Unicode support", "hash > > > randomization", "memory leaks". > > FWIW I've heard at least one valid argument for sticking with 5.6, > and that actually is unicode support. :-) > > Apparently, in 5.6 regular expressions don't have full unicode > support. But in 5.8 the regexp unicode stuff is expensive. And to make > matters worse, if anything in any package that you import uses unicode, > the new, slower unicode regular expression algorithm is applied to > *everything* and there's no easy way to turn that off. > > This is just a nasty rumour I'm sure, but I've heard it multiple > times from multiple people. I like to stay on the cutting edge and if > my regexps are too slow, I'll find some other way to do it. :-)
Which is fine if you live in ASCII land. Herr Müller paying € 150 to Mr. ☺ 唐鳳☻ might not share your view. :) OTOH, since the introduction of 5.6, hardware has gotten faster and cheaper, so the slower, but actually working Unicode processing in 5.8 might something you actually want :D Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Tue Apr 4 19:33:08 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Ivonna Humpalot"
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