Aaron Sherman writes:
> > The current syntax for what you're
> > trying to write is:
> >
> > /ab(c|b) <($1 eq 'c')>/
> >
> > which is equivalent to
> >
> > /ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/
>
> Now, what does "fail" mean? I can think of two definitions:
>
> 1. proceed to trap s
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 14:01, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Aaron Sherman writes:
> > > /ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/
> >
> > Now, what does "fail" mean? I can think of two definitions:
> >
> > 1. proceed to trap state (backtracking then happens)
> > 2. exit (probably using an exception) the
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:16, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> : /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
> :
> : If I recall correctly you had said something like, "there is no plan
> : (yet) to allow embedded closures to affect matching directly, other than
>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: Larry, while you're feeling chatty, I have a question about Perl 6
: regular expressions for you. You answered a question of mine, long ago
: with a correction. I had said something like:
:
: /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
:
: If I reca
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:17, Matthew Walton wrote:
> Also, climbing back out and shouting 'Eureka' would only really be
> appropriate if you actually had experienced a moment of revelation about
> something. I suspect you were too busy with the not drowning part for that.
Well, such moments of
