On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:33:05AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Tim Bunce writes:
> > If people *want* to say "use My::New:Regex;" and have that install a
> > new regex implementation for that lexical scope then we should allow
> > that.
>
> I don't hear a good reason for why we'd want this.
Why would the fuzzy regex not be done this way ?
> All I can see is
> that it would lead to yet more crap that someone would have to install
> in order to use a module.
>
> > I doubt we'll see multiple regex engines but should shouldn't presume to
> > stand in the way of making it possible.
>
> Au contraire. Some things we should stand in the way of. I suspect
> that this is one.
I am not sure I have an opinion either way on that, yet. But if
you think of it as "matching" instead of regex then I am sure people
could think up many uses. I suppose the question is "do they need the
regex syntax ?" (ie =~,$1,$2 etc) or could they just use a functional
interface from a module.
Graham.
