That's...sick... I love it. *Please* don't tell Damian.
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Well there are some people who consider it quite sane :)
http://www.cduce.org/papers/icalp04.pdf
Abstract: This paper studies the problem of matching sequences against regular expressions in order to produce structured values.
To me handling XML data is an area where Perl 6 could|should|will excel! I think Perl 5 already does.
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MfG -- TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
