Re: Perl6 regexes and UTS#18

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 08:59:51PM +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: : Tom Christiansen wrote: : Has anybody specifically looked at how Perl6 regexes might map to : the various requirements of UTS#18, Unicode Regular Expressions? : : http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/ : : Roughly Perl6

Re: Perl6 regexes and UTS#18

2011-02-09 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Larry Wall wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 08:59:51PM +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: : Tom Christiansen wrote: : I'm also curious whether there are active plans to address the : tr18 requirements in perl6 regexes. It would be a wonderful : feather in perl6's cap to be able to

Re: Perl6 regexes and UTS#18

2011-02-06 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Tom Christiansen wrote: Has anybody specifically looked at how Perl6 regexes might map to the various requirements of UTS#18, Unicode Regular Expressions? http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/ Roughly Perl6 supports Level 2 (I did a fast check of UTS#18 and the specs). I ask because to my

Perl6 regexes and UTS#18

2011-02-05 Thread Tom Christiansen
Has anybody specifically looked at how Perl6 regexes might map to the various requirements of UTS#18, Unicode Regular Expressions? http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/ I ask because to my inexperienced eye, quite a few perl6isms are *much* better at this than in perl5 obtain, and so I wondered