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=head1 TITLE
Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and // as delimiters.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 20, 2000
Last Modified: August 24, 2000
Version: 2
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 135
=head1 ABSTRACT
C<?...?> and C</.../> are what makes Perl hard to tokenize. Requiring
them to be written C<m?...?> and C<m/.../> would solve this.
=head1 CHANGES
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
Damian Conway's Text::Balanced module does a pretty good job of
tokenizing Perl code. However, bare C</.../> and C<?...?> require
semantic analyis to distinguish them from division and the hook
(C<A?B:C>) operator.
To remove this hassle, and thus permit programs that analyze the
source-code of other programs, I propose requiring that all matches
require an explicit C<m>.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
Remove the bare C</.../> and C<?...?> from the grammar :-) When
converting perl5 programs to perl6, put the C<m> in.
=head1 REFERENCES
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