Dan Sugalski:
# At 10:23 AM 1/12/2002 -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote:
# >On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
# >
# > > At 09:05 PM 1/11/2002 -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote:
# > > >I have a design question here. Why did we take the
# approach of having a
# > > >match method on every single vtable, instead of having a
# vtable for
# > > >regular expressions, and have regex be an object (like Perl 5)?
# > >
# > > So we could do:
# > >
# > > @results = @foo ^=~ /bar/;
# > >
# > > Basically to allow hypermatches.
# >
# >Would that become something like this:
# >
# >@results = @foo.match(qr/bar/);
# >
# >where the 'match' method is called on the PerlArray object,
# or would it
# >be more like:
# >
# >@results = map { $_.match(qr/bar/); } @foo; # Forgive the
# mixed p5/p6
# >
# >where the match method is called on each element of @foo?
#
# The former. The PerlArray object's perfectly justified in
# then calling
# match on each element inside itself.
How would this interact with the regular expression engine?
--Brent Dax
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