On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:27:50AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Carl Mäsak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I see this particular thinko a lot, though. Maybe some Perl 6 lint
> > tool or another will detect when you have a regex containing ^ at its
> > start, $ at the end, | somewhere in the middle, and no [] to
> > disambiguate.
>
> You know, this problem would go away, almost entirely, if we had a :f[ull]
> adverb for regex matching that imposed ^[...]$ around the entire match. Then
> your code becomes:
>
> m:f/<[A..Z]>+|<[a..z]>+/
There's a version of this already. Matching against an explicit 'regex',
'token', or 'rule' automatically anchors it on both ends. Thus:
$string ~~ regex { <[A..Z]>+ | <[a..z]>+ }
is equivalent to
$string ~~ regex { ^ [ <A..Z>+ | <[a..z]>+ ] $ }
Pm
