On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:40, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:02:22PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> : Of course, the regex itself can do this:
> : 
> :     qr{(fo*) ({$1 ne 'foo'})}
> 
> Er, at the moment bare closures don't care about their return value,
> so as it currently stands, you'd want something more like:
> 
>     rx/(fo*) {fail if $1 eq 'foo'}/

Dang, where's that Perl 6 compiler when I need it to clear up this sort
of thing? ;-)

Thanks for the correction. I notice I fell for the "qx" vs "rx" thing
too. Heh, old habits die hard.

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