Brent Dax writes:
: Sorry to reply to the same message twice, but I just noticed something.
: 
: Larry Wall:
: #     {n,m}           <n,m>
: 
: Isn't that the only use of angle brackets as a quantifier?  That's going
: to make parsing more difficult...

How so?  It's just a one-character lookahead to see if it's a digit.

But we could actually use a more general syntax:

    <for n..m: ...>

Larry

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