Richard Proctor writes:
:On Fri 08 Sep, Kevin Walker wrote:
[...]
:> Tom's comment points out a shortcoming in the original RFC: There's
:> no way to make, by name, a backref to a named group. I propose to
:> fix that in a revised version of RFC 150. I don't have strong
:> feelings about wha
On Fri 08 Sep, Kevin Walker wrote:
> (This thread has been inactive for a while. See
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-regex@perl.org/index.html#0
> 0015 for it's short history.)
>
> Long ago Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> >This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
For example, you can't now safely say
/$var (foo) \1/
and guarantee for arbitrary contents of $var that your you have
the right number backref anymore.
If I recall correctly, the Python folks addressed this. One
might check tha
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
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=head1 TITLE
Extend regex syntax to provide for return of a hash of matched subpatterns
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Kevin Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Aug 2000
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