Re: Another regex question

2002-01-13 Thread Steve Simmons
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:55:26AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > > It's meant to be a simple fallback for languages that are too pathetic > to implement their own regex compiler. ("FooLang should have regular > expressions, but I'm too lazy! I'll just use rx_compile!") Currently > I'm thinking of

Re: Recording what we decided *not* to do, and why

2000-08-03 Thread Steve Simmons
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:27:27AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Steve Simmons writes: > > . . . IMHO the RFC editor should be responsible for this. > > IMHO someone should write an RFC on why perl6 should NOT have > comments. The RFC editor doesn't have time to fol

Recording what we decided *not* to do, and why

2000-08-03 Thread Steve Simmons
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:40:24AM +0900, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:34:36PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: > > > That Perl should stay Perl > > Do we need an RFC for this? Seems like this is more of a "guiding > > concept" that should be intergrated into everything. Just my o