This deserves a "me too".
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> The camel and the docs include this example:
> if (/Time: (..):(..):(..)/) {
> $hours = $1;
> $minutes = $2;
> $seconds = $3;
> }
>
> This then becomes:
>
> /Time: (?$hours=..):(?$minutes=..):(?$seconds=..)/
>
> This is more maintainable than counting the brackets and easier to understand
> for a complex regex. And one does not have to worry about the scope of $1 etc.
--
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