Two weeks ago, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> So would it be possible for s/// to have the same return values as m//
> in perl6?
Since no one authoritative has responded to this, I will just add my
support that it seems like a reasonable request.
s/// currently "returns the number of substitutions mad
I realise that it's almost 2 years since the RFC deadline, plus we're
several apocolypses past the appropriate Camel chapters.
IIRC there are 5 different variants of m//
normal /g
scalar context: match from startcontinue progressive match
