Robin Houston writes:
: Are there any plans to change the regex syntax for Perl 6?
That's what the next apocalypse is about.
: I ask because I've spent the last few days playing with PCRE,
: and I added a rather powerful extension to it as an experiment.
: Details at http://www.puffinry.freeserv
> If my proposal has a hidden agenda, it's that I want to show that
> you can get a lot of the power we want without actually having to
> embed arbitrary code.
In general, however, I think that embedding code in regexes is a *very*
good idea. Sure you can get a lot of power without it, but it is
Are there any plans to change the regex syntax for Perl 6?
I ask because I've spent the last few days playing with PCRE,
and I added a rather powerful extension to it as an experiment.
Details at http://www.puffinry.freeserve.co.uk/regex-extension.html
Named capture-blocks are *long* overdue as
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 21:41, Michel J Lambert wrote:
> > > Too late. I'm going there... :)
> > Good for you. I was hoping transformations could make it :)
>
> Why didn't you chime in support before, then? I feel like Aaron and I are
> the only ones who are opinionated on this matter...
Hopefully
