Re: RFC 144 (v1) Behavior of empty regex should be simple

2000-09-13 Thread John Porter
John Porter wrote: Mark Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This behavior should be changed. If the PATTERN is empty, Perl should look for the empty string. (That is, if the PATTERN is empty, it should always match.) Except perhaps for undef loperands? (matchees? bindees?) What did you

Re: RFC 144 (v1) Behavior of empty regex should be simple

2000-08-24 Thread Tom Christiansen
I propose that this 'last successful match' behavior be discarded entirely, and that an empty pattern always match the empty string. I don't see a consideration for simply s/successful// above, which has also been talked about. Thas would also match expected usage based upon existing editors.