On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:16:17AM +0100, Hugo wrote:
:Simply put, I want variable-length lookbehind.
The difficulty with variable-length lookbehind (let's call it
VLLB) is this: suppose that we want to match "abcdef...xyz" =~
/(?=x+)y/. In theory, to check the possible /x+/ matches in
the
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:34:05PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
perl6-language-regex
Summary report 2831
RFC 72: The regexp engine should go backward as well as
forward. (Peter Heslin)
This topic did not attract much discussion until the very end of the
week. I sent
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:54:29PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
The big thing I find missing from this RFC is compelling examples.
You are proposing a major change to the regex engine but you only have
two examples. Both involve only fixed strings and one of them is
artificial. I
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:07:51PM -0400, mike mulligan wrote:
Can this be repackaged in such a way that it is a more natural extension of
the existing regexp language?
The RFC notes that the look-behind construct (?= pattern) can almost be
used. Two issues: 1. as currently implemented,
