On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 02:53 AM, Peter N Lewis wrote: > Yeah, something like that was what I was thinking. Although again, it > is a lot more mess than just <>. It seems to me it's worth another > special case for $/, although that is running out of special case > possibilities! It's never been a problem before because I never had to > deal with Mac & Unix files, it was always one or the other, possibly > plus DOS/Network CRLF files. Oh well. It's a shame $/ is not a regex, > but I guess that runtime cost of that would be a bit much.
It's planned to be a regex in Perl 6. The injudicious programmer will wonder occasionally why his/her program is slow as a dead dog... -Ken
