Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whis
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| RFC135: Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and // as delimiters.
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| RFC138: Eliminate =~ operator.
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| RFC164: Replace =~, !~, m//, and s/// with match() and subst()
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| I would like to see
Would there be any interest in adding these two ideas to this RFC:
1) tr is not regex function, so it should be regularized to
tr(SEARCH, REPLACE, MOD, STR)
The // tend to confuse people and make them expect tr to operate as a
regular expression.
2) Remove y/// as a command.
-spp
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> whispered:
| >The // tend to confuse people and make them expect tr to operate as a
| >regular expression.
|
| So what? q/.../ is not a "regex function" either. These are all
| pick-you-own-quotes function. This ma
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whis
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| > Would there be any interest in adding these two ideas to this RFC:
| >
| > 1) tr is not regex function, so it should be regularized to
| >
| >tr(SEARCH, REPLACE, MOD, STR)
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| MOD should be last
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whis
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| > > The way tr/// works is that a 256-byte table is constructed at compile
| > > time that say for each input character what output character is
| >
| > Speaking of which, what's going to happen when there
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> whispered:
| >Personally, I would say that q/.../ and friends were a bad idea.
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| That's one opinion. As Piers points out, it's hardly universal.
| Go read what I just wrote Uri.
"Personally" generally denotes opin
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> whispered:
| >Even if I only do something like tr/a/A/?
| >And, it is going to get worse for UTF8/UTF16?
|
| Use the Source.
If we all always used the source, we wouldn't need books and trainers.
Where would you and
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whis
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| Speedwise, it is. You don't have to do any tests on the bytes. All you
| have to do is use the ord of the character (the byte value) as an offset
| in a table, and replace what you had with what you find in the ta
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whis
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| I don't understand what this discussion has to do with this mailing
| list, and I don't understand what your point is. tr/// has already
This discussion doesn't have anything to do with this list. They w
