Re: RFC 135 (v2) Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and // as delimiters.

[Bart Lateur]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:44:32 -0400, John Porter wrote:

>Nathan Wiger wrote:
>> 
>> I do think
>> it's worth considering if we're dead-set on losing =~. 
>
>But are we?

I hope not. I *like* the =~ syntax, and I would hope we could extend it
to more functions that change one of their parameters, like
sysread/read:

        $bytes_read = $string =~ sysread FILE, $bytes_to_read;

-- 
        Bart.