On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:08:38PM -0400, Peter Schwenn wrote: > Still it would be more straightforward to have something like > $layn ~~ s:g/ (\W) [[RMA\.]? OpenNURBS\.]? I? On (<[2..4]>) dPoint > /$0Rhino.Geometry.Point$1d/; > and have a more perl6-built-in way of getting hold of the /replacement/ and > the count.
If it's :g, then wouldn't it be "replacement*s*"? The real question to me is whether this is a common enough use case to warrant the overhead of saving the replacement string(s) for every s// , or if doing it via closure is sufficient (if a little ugly, but IMO it's okay for rare to be a little ugly if it means common remains fast(er) :). Pm
