Can I say $*1, $*2, etc, to get perl5 flattened peren counting captures? We need something like that to make perl5->perl6 translation easier; otherwise we'd have to parse perl5 RE instead of just slapping on a ":p5". Unless ":p5" also means that you get a single already fattened match objct.
-- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:08:31PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > : Hmmm, then would $x.$j.2 then be equivalent to $x[$j-1][1] ? > > Ouch. > > Larry