Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> > Better would be to redefine what m//g means in a scalar context.
> >
> > $_ = "foofoofoofoofoofoofoo";
> > $count = m/foo/g;
> >
> > 1 is just as true as 7.
>
> I like this. No extra //modifiers to learn.
scalar context of /g is already defined to be something useful. You'd
have to make a new modifier to indicate you want the old /g behaviour,
which seems ... suboptimal.
Doubling the modifier /gg is not an option. Doubling a modifier
shouldn't make it do something completely different.
I suggest /n if you want the match to always return the [N]umber of
matches.
Nat
