On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 00:01, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Luke Palmer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
> >
> > > Damian Conway:

> > > #          $roundor7 = rx /<<roundascii>+[17]>/
> > > #
> > > # That is: the union of the two character classes.
> > >
> > > How can you be sure that <roundascii> is implemented as a character
> > > class, as opposed to (say) an alternation?
> >
> > What's the difference? :)

> None, I think.  Of course, if we ignore internals, there's no difference
> bewteen that and "rx /<roundascii> | 1 | 7/".

Then, why is there a C<+>? Why not make it C<|>?

        $foo = rx/ <<a>|<b>|[cde]>|f /



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