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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by davemp on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:42PM (#15010676)
> \d now matches Unicode digits such as ᭕ (a Balinese five) and ๓ (a Thai three).

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by perlancar3 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:51AM (#15016775)
It has been like that since forever (at least since 5.10, 2007). To only match 0-9, use [0-9] or /\d/a (/a is available since 5.14, 2011).
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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by ab5tract on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:45AM (#15016990)
How, exactly?
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