On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
> It's possible the syntax for substitution should be wrapped around the syntax
> for matching, whatever that turns out to be.
That strikes me as promising...
Going back to Perl5 for a moment, we have
substr($str,$start,$len) = $newstr
why not simply extend pattern-matching in a similar way to substr, making it
an L-value, so that one gets
$str ~ /[aeiou]+/ = "vowels($&)"
or
$str ~ /\d/ {hyper-symbol}= (0) x {size-of-LHS-array};
(hyper, however it's spelt, will have some way for the RHS to reference the
LHS, won't it?)
-Martin
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4GL ... it's code Jim, but not as we know it.
