Re: Portable upper/lower case regexp matchesre and procedures

2000-08-14 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If something's a mediocre idea, maybe it can be refined into a good idea, > > and maybe it can't. But voting is unlikely to help there either. > > > > Voting doesn't produce consensus. Discussion sometim

Re: Portable upper/lower case regexp matchesre and procedures

2000-08-11 Thread Larry Wall
Dave Storrs writes: : Here's my question of procedure: plenty of times on these lists, : I see something that I think is a really good idea. I don't want to waste : bandwidth by posting just a "me too!", but I also don't want the idea to : die because no one weighed in in support of it. I

Re: Portable upper/lower case regexp matchesre and procedures

2000-08-11 Thread Dave Storrs
>From the Perl6-language list: On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Bart Lateur wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:21:44 +0300, Jason Elbaum wrote: > > > \x match lowercase alpha char > >\X match uppercase alpha char > > You've got my vote, apart from one tiny detail: \x is already in use.