On Sun, 26 May 2002, Steve Fink wrote: > I implemented it that way once in my private tree. But I ended up > replacing it with a couple of PerlArrays. > > I am now of the opinion that there's currently nothing for a regex PMC > to do. At compile-time, you know what sort of beast you're matching > against. If you want to incrementally match an input sequence of some > sort, then you should probably be using the same continuation or > coroutine mechanism that regular subs use.
I've done some thinking about it this weekend. Upon reflection, what I should have said was "Regexes should be objects", which is more of a perl6 thing. What you say makes sense: how would the regex ops be called from within the PMC? It would be unneccesary overhead, and it doesn't make much sense... - D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
