On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:11:28PM -0500, Me wrote:
> Third, I was thinking that having perl 6 regexen have /s on
> by default would be easy for perl 5 coders to understand;
> not too hard to get used to; and have no negative effects
> for existing coders beyond getting used to the change.
I'm jumping in the middle of a conversation here, but consider the
problem of .* matching newlines by default and greediness.
/(foo.*)$/, /(foo.*)$/m and /(foo.*)$/s
when matching against something like "foo\nwiffle\nbarfoo\n" One matches the
last line. One matches the first line. And one matches all three lines.
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Consistency? I'm sorry, Sir, but you obviously chose the wrong door.
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