I've been searching for how to parse a string into a regex, like qr/$str/ does in Perl 5, but so far without success.
At first I assumed, by analogy with .Str, .List, etc, that I could call .Regex on a string, but this is not the case. On IRC's #perl6 I learned about the <$str> construct, which doesn't really create a new regex, but keeps a reference to the string around, with some (to me) surprising semantics: my $str = 'foo'; my $re = rx/<$str>/; $str = 'bar'; 'foo' ~~ $re; # no match Still, it's *almost* sufficient for my needs, except that for the purposes of a golfing challenge I'm working on, I want to parse the argument to a WhateverCode object into a regex, but this: map rx/<*>/, <a b c>; ...rather predictably doesn't work. So, is there in fact any way to simply parse a string into a brand-new Regex object?
