On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:06:07AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: > More and more conversations like this, (and how many have we seen here > already?) about characters sets, encodings, mail quoting issues, in > fact, anything other than Perl, will be rife on every Perl-related > mailing list if we persist with this idiotic idea of having Unicode > operators.
There will certainly be some pain in breaking out of ASCII. It might well be idiotic now, but I don't think it will be idiotic in ten years. And I am quite willing to deal with a certain amount of short-term crap on behalf of the future. Larry