From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-08-01T00:07:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [Brainstorming Input] Ruby-Oniguruma interoperability on Named Groups

Wolfgang N_dasi-Donner wrote:

[blurb about named groups in regular expressions]

I hope that the people responsible for the regular-expression code in
Ruby 2.0 read http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html before
going along with a Perl-5-inspired syntax with hopelessly ugly
extensions (I'm sorry, but \k<name> and \g<name> are just horrendous).
Perl 6’s way of defining grammars is quite neat and simple to
understand.  I also have some ideas for a better syntax, which is
inspired by the afforementioned document, but I have yet to release
anything (it was part of my master’s thesis),
        nikolai

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