Tim Bunce writes:
> > >The word "pluggable" gives me the willies. I feel like things like
> > >REs should have one blessed implementation and set of capabilities.
>
> The key point here is *one blessed implementation*.
(nat as nat)
When I said that, I was keeping in mind that we might have multiple
implementations when we're building a Perl to release, or preparing a
new version of Perl. But I fear Joe Random User being able to install
their own regexp engine. That way lies madness, surely.
> If people *want* to say "use My::New:Regex;" and have that install a
> new regex implementation for that lexical scope then we should allow
> that.
I don't hear a good reason for why we'd want this. All I can see is
that it would lead to yet more crap that someone would have to install
in order to use a module.
> I doubt we'll see multiple regex engines but should shouldn't presume to
> stand in the way of making it possible.
Au contraire. Some things we should stand in the way of. I suspect
that this is one.
Nat
