Re: RFC 135 (v2) Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and // as delimiters.

[Bart Lateur]

On 24 Aug 2000 20:24:52 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

>Damian Conway's Text::Balanced module does a pretty good job of
>tokenizing Perl code.  However, bare C</.../> and C<?...?> require
>semantic analyis to distinguish them from division and the hook
>(C<A?B:C>) operator.
>
>To remove this hassle, and thus permit programs that analyze the
>source-code of other programs, I propose requiring that all matches
>require an explicit C<m>.

Oh. I would have put my hopes on a better (= more generic) O::Deparse
mechanism to make Perl analyse the source code for you. Rewriting a Perl
in a module seems a bit silly to me.

-- 
        Bart.