On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Are we hoping that we can mmap() most scripts, so read isn't hugely a
> problem? And sluuuurp the rest in one? [doesn't feel good]
> Are we going to have "lazy scalars" which collude with the regexp engine
> so that if the regexp engine hits the current end more is read from
> the file handle?
> Something else?
Perhaps we could add a mode to the regex engine like:
$filehandle =~ /.../;
Where the engine itself would do the reading and buffering. Ok, that
might not be such a good idea... This probably never returns, eh:
$filehandle =~ /(.*)/;
However we solve the problem I hope we can allow Perl programmers access
to the solution. This is a very common problem with regex parsers.
-sam
