On 20 Sep 2000 21:37:03 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Bart Lateur: '()=' is not perfect. It is also butt ugly. It is a "dirty hack".
Please don't hold this against me!
I was arguing for a cleaner looking generic alternative for "()=", the
now defunct list() operator.
I do think that just adding a new regex modifier, just because "()=" is
ugly, is a bit over the top. If "()=" is not considered ugly enough to
be replaced in the general case, then it doesn't warrant adding a new
regex modifier just to replace it in this one specific case either.
How often do you intend to count matches without doing anything with it,
anyway?
--
Bart.
