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. :) -- Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.