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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-02-21 12:12:35 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-02-21 12:48:04 -0700
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perlrecharclass: \R could be inside a [...]
But we haven't made it so. So remove the text saying that it can't. For a couple of releases now, we have allowed something that can match more than one character to be inside a non-complemented bracketed character class, so this could too, should we choose to someday.
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@@ -271,9 +271,9 @@ They use the platform's native character set, and do not consider any
locale that may otherwise be in use.
C<\R> matches anything that can be considered a newline under Unicode
-rules. It's not a character class, as it can match a multi-character
-sequence. Therefore, it cannot be used inside a bracketed character
-class; use C<\v> instead (vertical whitespace). It uses the platform's
+rules. It can match a multi-character sequence. It cannot be used inside
+a bracketed character class; use C<\v> instead (vertical whitespace).
+It uses the platform's
native character set, and does not consider any locale that may
otherwise be in use.
Details are discussed in L<perlrebackslash>.