Dave Storrs wrote:
> why didn't you have to write:
>
> rule ugly_c_comment {
>
/
>
\/ \* [ .*? ? ]*? \* \/
>
{ let $0 := " " }
>
/
> }
Think of the curly braces as the regex quotes. If "{" is the quote
then there's nothing spe
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Ken Fox wrote:
> Dave Storrs wrote:
> > why didn't you have to write:
> >
> >rule ugly_c_comment {
> >
> /
> >
> \/ \* [ .*? ? ]*? \* \/
> >
> { let $0 := " " }
> >
> /
> >}
>
> Think of the curly braces as the regex q
> "KF" == Ken Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dave Storrs wrote:
>> why didn't you have to write:
>>
>> rule ugly_c_comment {
>> /
>> \/ \* [ .*? ? ]*? \* \/
>> { let $0 := " " }
>> /
>> }
> Think of the curly braces as the regex quotes. If "{" is the quote
> then
Uri Guttman wrote:
> but remember that whitespace is ignored as the /x mode is on
> all the time.
Whoops, yeah. For some reason I kept literal mode on when
reading the spaces between two literals.
The rules {foo bar} and {foobar} are the same, but some
very low level part of my brain is resisti
On 1 Aug 2002 at 19:30, David Whipp wrote:
> I'm wondering if Perl6's new regex can be applied to non-string things. I
> seem to recall A5 mentioning something about strings tied to array
> implementations; but I'm wanting something a little more powerful.
Yes, it can be applied to anything whic
