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Discussion on: 100 Languages Speedrun: Episode 47: Raku (Perl 6) Regular Expressions

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Jonathan Stowe

I think you are wildly overstating the \d thing. In Raku a character with the numeric unicode property is a digit:

raku -e 'say ௫๓௫๓'
5353
raku -e 'say ௫๓௫๓ + 1'
5354
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Given that, it would be perverse not to match those with \d.