Brent Dax wrote in perl.perl6.language :
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> I'm working on a preliminary version right now. So far it's been
> surprisingly easy--touches toke.c, perly.y, opcode.pl, pp.c, and
> pp_hot.c. (Of course, it's also off an old bleadperl, but I doubt those
> files change that actively.)
Work on a mo
Trey Harris wrote:
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> In a message dated Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dave Storrs writes:
> > sub load_data ( \$filename; $version; @_ ) {
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> I think you can do exactly this with
> sub load_data ( $filename is rw, $version, @_ ) {
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> Yes? Or maybe
> sub load_data ( $filename is r
Since A5 is the next thing up, it's probably worthwhile to try and get any
changes we want to regexes before they get finalized. :)
The (?something .. ) syntax which was used to extend the lifetime of the
parenthesis in Perl5 was due to the lack of matched delimiters.
With a little discussion th
Mike Lambert:
(a bunch of stuff about regexes)
No offense intended, but I had trouble understanding that, and I helped
come up with the thing. :^) So, I'll try to interpret.
In Perl 5, we came up against the problem of simply running out of
characters in regexes. To deal with this, Larry came
