On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:37:02PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:18:24PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > : Having a shortcut for <?null> seems like a very good idea; it > : certainly makes things a lot simpler for the optimizer. However, > : a reminder that A05 says that angles can be used as a bracketing > : construct as in C<< \x<0a> >>, so we have the situation that > : > : \d065 = ASCII "A" > : \d<065> = ASCII "A" > : \d<>065 = A digit, a null, and the digits "065" > > A05 is probably wrong there. I think we've settled on [] for the > standard extension brackets.
Oh, exclusively [] ? Excellent! I can rip out a small bit of code... :-) > : But for the :w issue, we can always solve it with the colon: > : > : \d:065 = A digit (cut) followed by "065" > > That doesn't extend to \d:woot, of course... It doesn't? I mean, isn't that a digit followed by "woot"? (Or am I just being dense here...?) Pm
