From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T02:26:41+09:00
Subject: Re: String#to_rx ?

On 11/27/05, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> Jeff Wood wrote:
> > The Perl syntax he proposed is a hideous mess of line noise ( no
> > surprises).
> So you think /(?:abc)/ is easier to read than /[abc]/?  How about
> /\w+\s*=\s*\w+/ versus /<word> = <word>/w (or /<word><ws>=<ws><word>/
> without 'w' modifier and assuming word = /\w+/)?

No, but I don't think that they're regular expressions at that point.

I wouldn't be opposed to a parser-literal type being included in Ruby
if done right (because that's *really* what Larry proposed), but I
would be opposed to rewriting Ruby regex into the Perl6 format.

-austin
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