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

From:
simon
Date:
August 9, 2000 05:48
Subject:
Re: Proposal for \v and \V, the small- and large- cut regex opera tors.
Message ID:
slrn8p2kov.beq.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org
Moore, Paul (lists.p5p):
>PS There's some level at which all of this is just an indication that we are
>reaching the point where we are trying to force too much power into the RE
>sublanguage, and we'd be better advised to stop and rethink matching as a
>whole. Those who see value in this should look at SNOBOL and Icon as a
>start...

Such ideas are for Perl 6, and I'm sure there'll be a
perl6-language-regexp list up by now. The rest of us need to keep the
Perl 5 RE engine doing what it should be doing and help keep it
accessible to our users. Rethinking the whole regular expression idea is
a good thing to do, but Perl 5.7 is not the time to do it. :)

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