Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-09 23:33:54 +0100 (Mon, 09 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25774
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: ~ and + now just stringify/numify the matched string, not the result object Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod 2009-03-09 22:24:01 UTC (rev 25773) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod 2009-03-09 22:33:54 UTC (rev 25774) @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Maintainer: Patrick Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> and Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> Date: 24 Jun 2002 - Last Modified: 8 Mar 2009 + Last Modified: 9 Mar 2009 Number: 5 - Version: 89 + Version: 90 This document summarizes Apocalypse 5, which is about the new regex syntax. We now try to call them I<regex> rather than "regular @@ -2411,8 +2411,8 @@ =item * -In string context it evaluates to the stringified value of its -I<result object>, which is usually the entire matched string: +In string context it evaluates to the stringified value of its match, +which is usually the entire matched string: print %hash{ "{$text ~~ /<.ident>/}" }; # or equivalently: @@ -2422,8 +2422,8 @@ =item * -In numeric context it evaluates to the numeric value of its -I<result object>, which is usually the entire matched string: +In numeric context it evaluates to the numeric value of its match, +which is usually the entire matched string: $sum += /\d+/; # or equivalently: