Author: lwall
Date: 2009-03-11 20:56:30 +0100 (Wed, 11 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 25800
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
Log:
rechristen .<?> as .rob (at least for now)
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod 2009-03-11 19:46:13 UTC (rev 25799)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod 2009-03-11 19:56:30 UTC (rev 25800)
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
Maintainer: Patrick Michaud <[email protected]> and
Larry Wall <[email protected]>
Date: 24 Jun 2002
- Last Modified: 9 Mar 2009
+ Last Modified: 11 Mar 2009
Number: 5
- Version: 90
+ Version: 91
This document summarizes Apocalypse 5, which is about the new regex
syntax. We now try to call them I<regex> rather than "regular
@@ -2435,8 +2435,8 @@
However, sometimes you would like an alternate scalar value to ride
along with the match. This is called a I<result> object, and it rides
-along in the null named key.
-C<$()> is a shorthand for C<$($<?> // Str($/))>.
+along is an attribute of the C<Match> object.
+C<$()> is a shorthand for C<$($/.rob)>.
Therefore C<$()> is usually just the entire match string, but
you can override that by calling C<make> inside a regex:
@@ -2447,7 +2447,7 @@
# match succeeds -- ignore the rest of the regex
});
-This puts the result object into C<$<?>>. If a result object is
+This puts the result object into C<$/.rob>. If a result object is
returned that way, it may be of any type, not just a string.
This makes it convenient to build up an abstract syntax tree of
arbitrary node types.
@@ -2581,7 +2581,7 @@
/;
say $(); # says 'bar'
-The result object is available in the C<Match> object via a C<< .<?> >> lookup.
+The result object is available in the C<Match> object via a C<< .rob >> lookup.
=back
