Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan writes:
> It'll appear shortly at your local mirror. You can get it from my web
> site as well.
>
> I'll be writing an extension module tomorrow, and starting next week, I'll
> get started on Regexp::Perl6.
Cool.
> Which leads me to a question about Perl 6 regexes. I'm writing an article
> on (?{ ... }) and (??{ ... }) for TPJ, and my conclusion translates some
> of the regexes I use to Perl 6. I have a question about the backtrack
> control assertions : :: and :::.
>
> Do any of them cause the regex to fail entirely? That is, not fail and
> try again from a different position in the string, but fail utterly? My
> understanding is they don't, which is why there's <commit>, but I just
> wanted to be sure of this.
Yeah, that's right. It's hard to do a commit in a Perl 5 regex, and
perhaps impossible generically.
Luke
> Thanks for your time.
>
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> <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
>
