On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:47:25 -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
m/.../Count,Insensitive (instead of m/.../ti)
That would escape the problem that we are running out of letters and
also the problem that the current letters are hard to remember.
Yes, but wouldn't this give us
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:00:43 -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
And, I don't really see the need for the comma.
m/.../CountInsensitive (instead of m/.../ti)
I guess, but to me CountInsensitive looks like one option, not two.
That goes fot this too.
: m/.../iCount
If we want to use uppercase, make these unique as well. That gives us
many more combinations, and is not necessarily confusing:
m//f - fast match
m//F - first match
m//i - case-insentitive
m//I - ignore whitespace
And so on. This seems like
Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
It occurs to me that since none of the capital letters are taken, we
could adopt the convention that a capital letter as a regex modifier
will introduce a *word* which continues up to the next comma.
Excelsior!
--
David Nicol
