Re: RFC 166 (v2) Alternative lists and quoting of things

2000-09-17 Thread Richard Proctor
On Sat 16 Sep, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > > > (?Q$foo) Quotes the contents of the scalar $foo - equivalent to > > (??{ quotemeta $foo }). > > How is this different from > > \Q$foo\E Um - not at all - think of it as a brainstorming overrun... BTW have you any thoughts about my "Genera

Re: RFC 72 (v3) Variable-length lookbehind: the regexp engine should also go backward.

2000-09-17 Thread Hugo
mike mulligan writes: :From: Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:54 PM : :> 3. The regexp is matched left to right: first the lookbehind, then 'X', :> then '[yz]'. : :Thanks for the insight - I was stuck in my bad assumption that the optimized :behavior was the only behav