Re: perl6-language-regex summary for 20000831

2000-09-01 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:34:05PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > > > > perl6-language-regex > > > > Summary report 2831 > > > > RFC 72: The regexp engine should go backward as well as > > forward. (Peter Heslin) > > > > This topic did not attract much discussion until the v

Re: perl6-language-regex summary for 20000831

2000-09-01 Thread Peter Heslin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:34:05PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > > perl6-language-regex > > Summary report 2831 > > RFC 72: The regexp engine should go backward as well as > forward. (Peter Heslin) > > This topic did not attract much discussion until the very end of the > week

Re: perl6-language-regex summary for 20000831

2000-08-31 Thread Richard Proctor
On Thu 31 Aug, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > Summary report 2831 > RFC 110: counting matches (Richard Proctor) > > An extensive side discussion of > > $count = () = m/PAT/g; > > developed, including an excursion off into context issues. I have > asked the author to take this idiom

perl6-language-regex summary for 20000831

2000-08-31 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
perl6-language-regex Summary report 2831 RFC 72: The regexp engine should go backward as well as forward. (Peter Heslin) This topic did not attract much discussion until the very end of the week. I sent the author a detailed critique, to which he has not responded. RFC 93: Regex