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

[Bart Lateur]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:17:19 -0600 (MDT), Nathan Torkington wrote:

>Damian's Text::Balanced does a pretty good job of tokenizing Perl
>as it is.  / by itself requires a lot of lookahead, and it's still
>a guess.

I don't get it. What makes it so hard? If you see a "/" when you're
expecting an operator, or end of statement, then it's division. If you
were expecting an expression, it's a regex. Ain't it?

-- 
        Bart.