On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:09:01AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> By the time the regex is actually executed, it's fully specified. By
> definition if nothing else--you aren't allowed to selectively
> redefine rules in the middle of a regex that uses those rules. Or,
> rather, you can but the update won't take effect until after the end
> of the regex, the same way that you can't redefine a sub you're in
> the middle of executing. (And yes, I'm aware that if you do that
> you'll pick up the new version if you recursively call, but that
> won't work with regexes)
Are you implying that
$fred = rx/fred/;
$string ~~ m:w/ <$fred> { $fred = rx/barney/; } rubble /
won't match "barney rubble"?
-Scott
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