> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes: > > 1. It's nice how the ':', '::', and ':::' progression indicates > > progressively wider scope. But I would be surprised if > > newbies don't say to themselves, "now just how wide a > > scope am I backtracking when there's three colons?". > > Why would newbies be writing three-colon regexes?
By "newbie" I meant it in a relative sense, ie. someone who is learning those particular features. The newbie could be an expert in Prolog and Perl 5. And I'm more concerned about when they are reading some existing patterns than when they are writing one. -- ralph
