On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 05:06, Mike Lambert wrote: > > He then went on to describe something I didn't understand at all. > > Sorry. > > Few corrections to what you wrote: > > To avoid the problem of extending {} to support new features with a > character 'x', without breaking stuff that might have an 'x' immediately > after the '{', my proposal is to require one space after the { before the > real regex appears.
I hope that you mean "one or more whitespace characters", not just a space. The following would be correct, no? /{| .* }/ Anything else would seem rather confusing to the average Perl programmer.