On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:09:43PM -0700, David Wheeler wrote: > Anyone know what the chances are that some enterprising C hacker > can/will/did get the // and //= operator into Perl 5.8? Seems like it > wouldn't be a huge deal to add, and I'd love to have it sooner rather than > later.
It is not hard todo. If you look in the archives you can probably find it, although it will be there as ?? The problem with // is that it already has a meaning and although perl6 will redefine it can we do so in perl5 ? I don't think we can. Graham.