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On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:16:12AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> > "(" (.) group(1, [[ 'a' .. 'z' ]] (*) [3,5] ) (.) ")"
> >
> > here (.) is the ASCII substitution for the UNICODE "REx concatenate"
> > char, similarly for [[. ]] and (*). (The chars may be borrowed from
> > the math repertoire.)
>
> Hmm. Looks nice. How about pattern functions, e.g.,
>
> sub match_all : pattern {
> "(" . group(1, [ 'a' .. 'z' ] * [3,5] ) . ")"
> }
These are just user-defined ops. You should be able to overwrite the
normal ops, as in:
sub match_all {
use re_ops 'overload_usual_ops';
"(" . group(1, [ 'a' .. 'z' ] * [3,5] ) . ")"
}
Will this go?
Ilya
P.S.
> Variable interpolation can be handled using Damian's curried expressions.
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