On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:43:39PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
PGE will have a perl5 RE parser built in to handle the ":p5" option, and it will return match objects according to perl 5's capture semantics with no nesting (i.e., counting left parens). I will probably start a perl 5 RE parser just to get it started, but after that I'd prefer to turn it over to someone else to maintain. Note that PGE will already provide the matching engine itself -- we simply need something that converts p5 expression trees into PGE's expression trees. In addition, I'm planning to write a glob/wildcard parser, which does matches based on Unix filename globbing syntax. Pm
