On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 11:04 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
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>> Oh well. It's a shame $/ is not a regex, but I guess that
>> runtime cost of that would be a bit much.
>
> It's planned to be a regex in Perl 6. The injudicious programmer
> will wonder occasionally why his/her program is slow as a dead
> dog...
>
Seriously? :/
People are only supposed to shoot their foot off after they
understand that bullets are loud and painful, right?
Perl 6 should enable compatibility and speed by default...
IMHO, Perl should NOT fiddle with data w/o being told to do so...
my $cents =~ /2/gee; # For what it's worth...
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