--- David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/6/02 11:43 PM, "Damian Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed:
>
> >> / $2:=(.*?), \h* $1:=(.*) /
> >>
> >> Does this imply that $1, $2, etc are now read-write outside of regexen?
> >
> > No.
>
> Maybe this is a RTFM question, but does Perl 6 (or Perl 5, for that matter)
> have some magical array that holds all the matches from the last match?
> e.g., ($1, $2, $3, ...)?
A5, under "RFC 072: Variable-length lookbehind":
"Did I mention that the magical @+ and @- arrays are gonna be real dead?
Never could remember which one was which anyway..."
Another great loss to the golfing community, I guess. I pose my own question:
Q. Will Perl 6 be an interesting language to golf? Or will be the shortest
solutions also be the most obvious (using day-to-day programming)?
CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have a __meaningful__ answer, like you've just
re-implemented one of The Perl Review golf winners in less or a similar
number of characters.
I guess the golfing community would appreciate a mini-exegsis for what
Perl 6 can do for them :) [hint, hint]
Jonathan Paton
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