Re: Ideas that need RFCs?

[Nathan Torkington]

Randal L. Schwartz writes:
> Joe> thing in Perl, we'd need to be able to match a substring, and
> Joe> then call an arbitrary function in the middle of a pattern match,
> Joe> and to back out the call if the match failed.
> 
> Already done in 5.6. :)  "perldoc perlre".

Anyone who has actually tried to parse using Perl's REs knows that
it's not really there yet.  $^R is like yylval on anti-steroids.

Nat