On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:03:56AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> That means that we either have to have an order dependency or be
> very careful not to allow any P6 shortcuts that happen to use the
> deprecated Perl 5 modifiers.  Perhaps it would be better to have an
> option argument to P5 instead:
> 
>     rx:P5('imsxg')/.../
> 
> or some such.  Given the current bias towards adverbs slurping up the
> following postfix brackets, that could perhaps also be written:
> 
>     rx:P5<imsxg>/.../

Cool, I like that!  Implemented as r1975:

    * P5 flags are now spelled as :P5<imsgx>.  :i :g works too.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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