Re: What's in a Regex (was RFC 145)

2000-09-07 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:37:55PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: Question: Is there value in extending the regex/pattern engine to support matching patterns in a list of foobars? I can see this taking two forms (beyond the strings we have today). One is matching number patterns (fibonaci,

Re: What's in a Regex (was RFC 145)

2000-09-07 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
2. Many people - including Larry - have voiced their desire to see =~ die a horrible death Please provide a look-up-able reference to Larry's saying that he wanted to =~ to die horrible death. Larry said: # Well, the fact is, I've been thinking about possible ways to get rid #

Re: What's in a Regex (was RFC 145)

2000-09-07 Thread Nathan Wiger
Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: Larry said: # Well, the fact is, I've been thinking about possible ways to get rid # of =~ for some time now, so I certainly don't mind brainstorming in # this direction. That is in [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is archived at