>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> On 27 Aug 2002, Uri Guttman wrote: : and quoteline might even LW> default to " for its delim which would make : that line: LW> : LW> : my ($fields) = /(<quotelike>|\S+)/; LW> That just looks like: LW> my $field = /<shellword>/; where is the grabbing there? if there was more than just shellword would you have to () it for a grab? wouldn't that assign a boolean like perl5 or is the boolean result only returned in a boolean context? what happens to $field if no match was found? undef? the old boolean false of a null string wouldn't be good as that could be the result of a match. i assume undef could never be the result of a match unless some included perl code returned undef to the match object. then coder emptor would be the rule. and it would be nice to have a dictionary of builtin rules. :) also i assume i was correct in that we won't need CORE:: for those? unless something we inherit had the same name and we wanted the CORE:: version. this is gonna make all the groups that copied perl5 regexes blow their lids. just think about all the neat canned regexes that will be done. like Regex::Common but even more so. we will need a CPAN just for these alone. full blown *ML parsers, email verifiers, formatted data extractors, etc. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
