Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:23:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:> Cool stuff. Does this have any effect on qr-overloading? If I remember
:> rightly, one of the problems with overloading of qr{} in the past was
:> that you didn't get to see interpolated variables.
[...]
:> - at runtime give me the constant text
:> - at runtime give me the variable name
:> - at runtime give me the variable's SV
:> - at runtime give me the interpolated text
:
:I'm not quite sure how that would work, or why it would be useful.It would allow a filter to translate patterns before the regexp engine got to compile them. Currently filters only get to see the uninterpolated fragments. Hugo
