Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> $ parrot examples/assembly/pcre.imc "abcdef12" 'bc(.)([a-z]+)'
>> abcdef12 =~ /bc(.)([a-z]+)/
> Given that, for perl 5 code, we're going to have perl 5's real regex
> engine, and for perl 6 in perl 5 compatibility mode PCRE is inadequate, I
> don't think there's much point in PCRE as a long-term solution for
> anything. Like it or not, we're going to have to reimplement perl 5's
> regex compiler so it emits parrot bytecode.
I dunno yet, how unusable PCRE is for perl5 compat, but pcre 4.4 has
utf8 support, and even kind of ?{code} syntax called "callout".
I don't see PCRE as a long term solution but it would be a nice to have
in the meantime and it could be useful to boot the real regex machine,
be it perl5 or perl6 rules.
> Dan
leo
