Re: Suggestion for perl 6 regex syntax

2002-09-07 Thread Steve Fink
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:03:43AM -0700, Mr. Nobody wrote: > While Apocolypse 5 raises some good points about problems with the old regex > syntax, its new syntax is actually worse than in perl 5. Most regexes, such > as this one to match a C float Wrong list. You want the second door down the h

Suggestion for perl 6 regex syntax

2002-09-07 Thread Mr. Nobody
While Apocolypse 5 raises some good points about problems with the old regex syntax, its new syntax is actually worse than in perl 5. Most regexes, such as this one to match a C float /^([+-]?)(?=\d|\.\d)\d*(\.\d*)?([Ee]([+-]?\d+))?$/ would actually become longer: /^(<[+-]>?)\d*(\.\d*)?(<[Ee]>(