On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Brice Figureau wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 08:38 +0200, David Schmitt wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> The idea is that x/y/z (chained division) is rarer than regexp--in
>>> part because nobody trusts My Dear Aunt Sally that far.
>>>
>>> So it gets rid of the problem that was originally discovered but
>>> not the root cause Brice realised behind it..
>>>
>>> As for context sensitivity, I'd favour positive (regular
>>> expression can occur in specific places) to negative.
>>
>> +1. Or use perl's m// to denote a matching regexp. That would get
>> rid of
>> the ambiguity at the lexing level.
>
> Unfortunately, not always:
>
> $var = $thisvarendswithm/4/4
That should lex fine -- the variable will lex, then the slash.
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