Re: RFC 72 (v4) Variable-length lookbehind.

2000-09-30 Thread Hugo
:The original proposal suggested that it would be nice if C in list :context were to return the offset into the the target string where :the match begins, as well as where it ends. Some people seemed to like :this idea, so I am leaving it in, even though it no longer has much to :do with the cont

Re: RFC 72 (v4) Variable-length lookbehind.

2000-09-30 Thread Bart Lateur
On 30 Sep 2000 19:50:27 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: >In Perl6, lookbehind in regular expressions should be extended to permit >not only fixed-length, but also variable-length lookbehind. I see no mention of negative lookbehind. As I wrote before, in: /(?