Re: RFC 331 (v1) Consolidate the $1 and C<\1> notations

[Dave Storrs]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Bart Lateur wrote:

> I wrote this before, but apparently you didn't hear it. Let me repeat:

        You're right, I missed your email when I was incorporating things
into the new version.  Apologies.


> $foo on the LHS allows metacharacter matching, for example "a.*b" can
> match "a foo b". But \1 only allows literal strings. If $1 captured

        I don't believe it matters...my version of $1 works exactly like
the current \1 and my $/[1] works exactly like the current $1.  

                                Dave