Re: RFC 150 (v1) Extend regex syntax to provide for return of a hash of matched subpatterns

2000-09-08 Thread Richard Proctor
On Fri 08 Sep, Kevin Walker wrote: (This thread has been inactive for a while. See http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-regex@perl.org/index.html#0 0015 for it's short history.) Long ago Tom Christiansen wrote: This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent. For

Re: RFC 150 (v1) Extend regex syntax to provide for return of a hash of matched subpatterns

2000-08-24 Thread Tom Christiansen
This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent. For example, you can't now safely say /$var (foo) \1/ and guarantee for arbitrary contents of $var that your you have the right number backref anymore. If I recall correctly, the Python folks addressed this. One might check