Larry, Wow, that was a very good demolition and rebuilding of the regex edifice.
When the RFCs were being written I spent many hours thinking over some of the issues and writting many of the RFCs on regexes, trying to build on what was in perl5, without changing the existing language use. By allowing change to that starting point he has done a much better job of it. (I was not a novice in this as I had done research in pattern matching at University many many years ago) At the time of the RFCs I was employed and hence had more free time to spend thinking about the design of perl6 than I do at present. (How is it that being unemployed I have LESS free time...) Richard -- Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.waveney.org Telecoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.WaveneyConsulting.com Web services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wavwebs.com Independent Telecommunications Consultant, ATM expert, Web Analyst & Services
