Larry,
Wow, that was a very good demolition and rebuilding of the regex edifice.
When the RFCs were being written I spent many hours thinking over some
of the issues and writting many of the RFCs on regexes, trying to build on
what was in perl5, without changing the existing language use. By al
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> > > rule val {
> > > [ # quoted
> > >$b := <['"]>
> > >( [ \\. | . ]*? )
> > >$b
> > > ] | # or not
> > >(\H+)
> > > }
> >
> > Not quite. Assigning to $b is a capture.
>
> I'm confused. The examples in A5 all show $var := (pa
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > Dave Storrs wrote:
> > Can we please have a 'reverse x' modifier that means "treat whitespace as
> > literals"? Yes, we are living in a Unicode world now and your data could
> >
> > /FATAL ERROR\:Process (\d+) received signal\: (\d+)/
>
> I don't
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dave Storrs wrote:
>
> >
> > I assume that 'fatal.pm' is a new pragma.
>
> Already exists for Perl 5, actually.
*blush* Must have missed it. Drat, and I just finished rereading
Camel III. Apologies.
Dave
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dave Storrs wrote:
>
> I assume that 'fatal.pm' is a new pragma.
Already exists for Perl 5, actually.
> 1) What (if anything) does it do, aside from turning 'fail' into a fatal
> exception when used outside a regex?
What fatal currently does is wrap built-ins that might r
I assume that 'fatal.pm' is a new pragma.
1) What (if anything) does it do, aside from turning 'fail' into a fatal
exception when used outside a regex?
2) Do you need to use it before you can (usefully) use 'fail' INSIDE a
regex? (I would assume not, but thought I'd check.)
Dave
On Fri, 7
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:34:16PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> Trey Harris wrote:
> > rule val {
> > [ # quoted
> >$b := <['"]>
> >( [ \\. | . ]*? )
> >$b
> > ] | # or not
> >(\H+)
> > }
>
> Not quite. Assigning to $b is a capture.
I'm confused. The e
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> outlined his plans for world domination:
[...]
>
> Dammit, you fools! Do I have to think of *everything*??? Just tie him to a
> steel bench and apply the Ruby laser!
>
> I do apologize, Mr Wardley. Good evil assistants are just impossible to get
> these days.
