On 2010-08-05, at 8:27 am, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Carl Mäsak <cma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I see this particular thinko a lot, though. Maybe some Perl 6 lint tool or >> another will detect when you have a regex containing ^ at its start, $ at >> the end, | somewhere in the middle, and no [] to disambiguate.
I think conceptually the beginning and the end of a string feels like a bracketing construct (only without symmetrical symbols). At least that seems to be my instinct. Well, it doesn't in / ^foo | ^bar | ^qux /, but in something like /^ foo|bar $/, the context immediately implies a higher precedence for ^ and $. Maybe something like // foo|bar // could work as a bracketing version? > You know, this problem would go away, almost entirely, if we had a :f[ull] > adverb for regex matching that imposed ^[...]$ around the entire match. I was thinking of that too. > I suspect :full would almost always be associated with TOP, in fact. Boy am > I tired of typing ^ and $ in TOP ;-) Does it make sense for ^[...]$ to be assumed in TOP by default? (Though not necessary if there's a shortcut like //...//.) -David
