From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-10-11T04:31:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl 6 style regular expressions

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:13:00 +0900, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> * mark <msparshatt@yahoo.co.uk> [Oct, 10 2003 18:00]:
>> I was wondering if anyone has done any work on implementing Perl 6
>> style regular expressions.
> Not that I know of, more than the one for Perl6 perhaps ;-) If anyone is,
> I'd also like to know

>> At the very least it'd probably make an interesting project.
> I'm planning to do something similar to this.
> It seems very useful,

I've been reading the apocalypse and exegesis on this, and it mostly seems 
like good ideas, and might not be a bad thing to support as an extension in 
Ruby (although I wouldn't call them REs, per Damion's exegesis).

-austin
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