Re: RFC 110 (v3) counting matches

[Mark-Jason Dominus]

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> 
> > OK, I think this discussion should be closed.
> 
> I think the bit about "having a special array containing all captured
> matches" might well still live on. The "counting" bit _per se_ is probably
> fairly closed, though.

I didn't mean to close the discussion about counting.  The only part
of the discussion that I thought should be closed was the argument 
about whether 

        $count = () = m/.../g;

was a good idea, and the following discussion that was all about
context issues and context operators and had nothing to do with regexes.

Sorry that this was unclear.