From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2005-08-01T00:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [Brainstorming Input] Ruby-Oniguruma interoperability on Named Groups

"Nikolai Weibull" <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20050731150727.GA5150@puritan.pnetwork...

>>>>> snip >>>>>
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. ...
>>>>> snap >>>>>

Is it a realistic idea to produce change proposals against Oniguruma? - As I understood it is a project in its
own right and used in different projects, not only Ruby.

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Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner
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