Brice Figureau wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 08:38 +0200, David Schmitt wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> The idea is that x/y/z (chained division) is rarer than regexp--in part 
>>> because nobody trusts My Dear Aunt Sally that far.
>>>
>>> So it gets rid of the problem that was originally discovered but not the 
>>> root cause Brice realised behind it..
>>>
>>> As for context sensitivity, I'd favour positive (regular expression can 
>>> occur in specific places) to negative.
>> +1. Or use perl's m// to denote a matching regexp. That would get rid of 
>> the ambiguity at the lexing level.
> 
> Unfortunately, not always:
> 
> $var = $thisvarendswithm/4/4

Variablenames are longest match, no?

Regards, DavidS



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