On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 05:06, Mike Lambert wrote:
> > He then went on to describe something I didn't understand at all.
> > Sorry.
>
> Few corrections to what you wrote:
>
> To avoid the problem of extending {} to support new features with a
> character 'x', without breaking stuff that might have an 'x' immediately
> after the '{', my proposal is to require one space after the { before the
> real regex appears.
I hope that you mean "one or more whitespace characters", not just a
space. The following would be correct, no?
/{|
.*
}/
Anything else would seem rather confusing to the average Perl
programmer.
