On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:01:29AM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Probably the easiest thing is to implement some sort of file-tied scalar or
something that can provide bytes to the regex engine until it stops asking
for them. Some magic or other,
David Mitchell wrote:
Roland Giersig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe:
"Perl6 should excell at manipulating *formatted* text."
Quite possibly, although as a previous poster has pointed out,
formatted text != XML.
Yes, but both share a common underlying structure: they are both
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:54:43 +0100, Roland Giersig wrote:
Maybe the title should be :
"Perl should use XML as its basic data type instead of linear strings"
Horrible.
I kinda liked your original proposal. But you should NOT focus on XML.
That leaves out too many other possible data sources:
Roland Giersig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe:
"Perl6 should excell at manipulating *formatted* text."
Quite possibly, although as a previous poster has pointed out,
fotmatted text != XML.
ie in the sense that HTML, RTF, TeX etc, have a natural sense of containing
a single piece of text
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I think Dan was suggesting that the (user side) regex doesn't change at all
(so that's no new syntax there)
It's just that the innards of perl gains a tied scalar that doesn't actually
read in and buffer the file immediately, but defers it as long
