Re: Tree Transformations (was: Perl6 Macros)

2002-04-01 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 21:41, Michel J Lambert wrote: Too late. I'm going there... :) Good for you. I was hoping transformations could make it :) Why didn't you chime in support before, then? I feel like Aaron and I are the only ones who are opinionated on this matter... Hopefully, this

Regex extensions?

2002-04-01 Thread Robin Houston
Are there any plans to change the regex syntax for Perl 6? I ask because I've spent the last few days playing with PCRE, and I added a rather powerful extension to it as an experiment. Details at http://www.puffinry.freeserve.co.uk/regex-extension.html Named capture-blocks are *long* overdue as

Re: Regex extensions?

2002-04-01 Thread Luke Palmer
If my proposal has a hidden agenda, it's that I want to show that you can get a lot of the power we want without actually having to embed arbitrary code. In general, however, I think that embedding code in regexes is a *very* good idea. Sure you can get a lot of power without it, but it is

Re: Regex extensions?

2002-04-01 Thread Larry Wall
Robin Houston writes: : Are there any plans to change the regex syntax for Perl 6? That's what the next apocalypse is about. : I ask because I've spent the last few days playing with PCRE, : and I added a rather powerful extension to it as an experiment. : Details at