At 09:05 PM 1/11/2002 -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>I have a design question here.  Why did we take the approach of having a
>match method on every single vtable, instead of having a vtable for
>regular expressions, and have regex be an object (like Perl 5)?

So we could do:

   @results = @foo ^=~ /bar/;

Basically to allow hypermatches.

                                        Dan

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