Regex 6.0 On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Stephen Jarjoura <[email protected]>wrote:
> How about ... > > Perls Extended Pattern Matching / Extraction Dialect > PEPMED > > (and it's logo could be a cute little red pill doing jumping jacks) > > -- > Stephen A. Jarjoura > http://runester.com > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Duane Bronson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Nice summary. Thanks for posting. > > > > He also mentioned that he has not come up with a good name for the new > > pattern matching syntax that is meant to replace perl5's regex. I > applaud > > this renaming as "regex" (regular expression) is not very regular since > it > > varies so much from grep/vim/sed/etc. However, "perl6's pattern > matching" > > doesn't quite roll off the tongue as you might expect. Surely the perl > > community can help him come up with a good marketing term that puts perl6 > on > > the map. > > > > It's not as easy as it sounds, though. Here are some good and bad ideas > I > > had: > > Perl's Extended Regex Language -- unfortunate acronym collision > > Perl's Matching Syntax -- probably not appropriate > > Extended Search Pattern -- even the acronym implies power and insight > > Ballistic Matching -- acronym implies steady flow of data that doesn't > get > > backed up. > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
