Re: XML/HTML-specific ?< and ?> operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

[Tom Christiansen]

>I am working on an RFC
>to allow boolean logic ( && and || and !) to apply a number of patterns to
>the same substring to allow easier mining of information out of such
>constructs. 

What, you don't like: :-)

    $pattern = $conjunction eq "AND"
                ? join(''  => map { "(?=.*$_)" } @patterns)
                | join("|" =>                    @patterns);

--tom