People in the Unicode world sometimes use U+(four hex digits) to refer
to a Unicode codepoint. Here's a patch that lets them do that in Perl.
--- toke.c~ Mon Feb 12 03:22:05 2001
+++ toke.c Mon Feb 12 03:56:19 2001
@@ -3747,6 +3747,34 @@
no_op("Backslash",s);
OPERATOR
'U' magic functions are not passed a context, patch below fixes..
Index: mg.c
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvs_repository/perl-current-mirror/mg.c,v
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diff -u -r1.1.1.7 mg.c
--- mg.c2001/01/31 19:12:52
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:05:54AM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
> People in the Unicode world sometimes use U+(four hex digits) to refer
> to a Unicode codepoint. Here's a patch that lets them do that in Perl.
I know U+ is used but I dunno whether we want yet another magical
token type, persona
