Re: RFC 150 (v1) Extend regex syntax to provide for return of ahash of matched subpatterns

[Kevin Walker]

At 11:23 AM -0600 on 8/24/00, Tom Christiansen wrote:

>This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
>For example, you can't now safely say
>
>    /$var (foo) \1/
>
>and guarantee for arbitrary contents of $var that your you have
>the right number backref anymore.

Good point.  Thanks.

>If I recall correctly, the Python folks addressed this.  One
>might check that.

I'll do that, though for irrational, chauvinistic reasons I'm 
reluctant to imitate Python too closely.