Several RFCs have been issued that relate to regexes or pattern
matching but which predate the perl6-language-regex list. I have
asked the librarian to transfer ownership of these RFCs to this list.
In the meantime, here is a summary of the outstanding regex-related
RFCs:
72 (v1): The regexp engine should go backward as well as forward.
It is proposed that the regular expression engine should be
designed so that, when it is in an accepting state, it will
either consume the character after the end of the currently
matching part of the target string, or the character just
before its beginning, depending on instructions embedded in
the regexp itself.
93 (v1): Regex: Support for incremental pattern matching
This RFC proposes that, in addition to strings, subroutine
references may be bound (with =~ or !~ or implicitly) to a
regular expression.
110 (v1): counting matches
Provide a simple way of giving a count of matches of a pattern.
112 (v1): Assignment within a regex
Provide a simple way of naming and picking out information
from a regex without having to count the brackets.
135 (v1): Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and // as delimiters.
C<?...?> and C</.../> are what makes Perl hard to tokenize.
Requiring them to be written C<m?...?> and C<m/.../> would
solve this.
Mark-Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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