Edward Peschko wrote:
What I think you're looking for is the fact that they're not regexes any more. They are > "rexen", but in horrifying-secret-reality, what has happened is that Larry's decided
to move Fortran out of core, and replace it with yacc.
just an aside, and a bit off-topic, but has anybody considered hijacking the regular
expression engine in perl6 and turning it into its opposite, namely making *productions*
of strings/sounds/whatever that could possibly match the regular expression? ie:
a*
producing
''
a
aa
aaa
aaaa
etc.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this the :any switch of apoc 5?
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/26/synopsis5.html
Joseph F. Ryan
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