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Re: Proposal for \v and \V, the small- and large- cut regex operators.

From:
Jeffrey Friedl
Date:
August 9, 2000 04:21
Subject:
Re: Proposal for \v and \V, the small- and large- cut regex operators.
Message ID:
200008091121.EAA13471@ventrue.yahoo.com

Simon Cozens wrote:
|> I'm hoping, if p5p approves, that that's what the How REs Fit Together
|> section will turn into.

I think that'd be wonderful, but my point was that I think it would best
serve the user to leave the backtracking in that document at least *until*
there's a suitable replacement, not until we *hope* there will be a
suitable replacement :-)

Perhaps put the backtracking stuff after the new stuff, if it's not after
already....

( My unsaid point was that I (still) don't think it will ever be totally
  sufficient to replace the backtracking section, unless Perl's documented
  regex semantics are changed, but that's the point of a previous message
  that no one's yet responded to )-:

	Jeffrey
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