I like pregex - perl regex. Or pregnant expression. Pregxp would avoid accidental pattern matches when googling.
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Jarjoura <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:26 PM To: Tom Metro <[email protected]>; L-boston-pm <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk 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
