I think David's on to something good here. A major problem with
holding the bracket-matching possibilities in a special variable
(or a pair of them) is that one can't figure out what the RE is
going to do just by looking at it -- you have to look elsewhere.
Nathan Wiger wrote:
I think it's cool
Nat wrote:
5.6's regular expressions have (??{ ... }) to permit recursion and
$^R to maintain state through the parsing.
In another thread, Tomc wrote:
[...] Likewise the @+ and @- stuff.
Okay, I'm throwing my ignorance out for the whole world to see. WTF??
Sure, I'm not in the loop, as
