Aaron Sherman writes: > On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:22, Juerd wrote: > > > Actually, can't we just use the . for s///? > > Well, that brings up something that I don't think Larry has covered yet. > That is, it brings into question what s/// *is* in the grammar.
Well, I imagine it's just a macro called C<s> that turns itself into an appropritate sub call. As a method, I don't think it exists. It's more of a $str.subst(). You can't add special parse rules to methods, since you can't do polymorphic parsing[1]. So you'd more likely have: my $subd = $str.subst( rx/ \w+ / => "WORD", ); Which would open up: my $subd = $str.subst( rx/ I\< (.*?) \> / => { "<i>$1</i>" }, rx/ \< / => '<', rx/ \> / => '>', ); Ã la Regexp::Subst::Parallel. Provided the hypothetical scoping works out there. Hmm, would the scope of $1 propagate? Luke [1] I feel a new experimental language coming on... >:-}