On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:07:49PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : We might have to use arbitrary code to match arrays and hashes as well, : if the opcodes support only scalar string matches.
I really wasn't being very clear about this. For efficiency we may need "trie" support (or something like it) to match various strings in parallel. My point is that it could very well be the case that character classes are just a specific application of this. Larry
