In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hen ri Yandell writes: >Any plans for ORO to support the new and novel Perl 6 syntax? It seems >that they've largely defined an initial spec for it, and this would be one >way to give ORO a raison d'etre over java.util.regex. Could even jump the >gun and have it out and supported before Perl 6 (no rush :) ).
I think it's a great idea, but I haven't looked at the new Perl 6 syntax recently and recall a lot of it doesn't translate well to Java. However, I don't have any itches in that area and am only performing maintenance duties as required by the demands of other projects or users. So I certainly won't be leading a Perl 6 charge. The VFS discussion on commons-dev drove the new engine factories and it also seemed to indicate a need for some of the missing Perl5 > 5.003 features, so I'll make an effort to implement zero-width lookbehind assertions. But if anyone has a hankering to implement a new regex engine, a Perl 6 engine would be a great way to get involved. Where the project goes is in the user's and would-be committers hands. Right now development is motivated by the need for projects to have a regex bridge for pre-J2SE 1.4 JVMs. daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
