On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:53:12AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> : - PGE doesn't implement by default, because that's not (yet?)
> : part of the spec. It only appears in PCT::Grammar, for people
> : using the Parrot Compiler Toolkit to create languages.
>
> I have wanted a number of times, par
: - PGE doesn't implement by default, because that's not (yet?)
: part of the spec. It only appears in PCT::Grammar, for people
: using the Parrot Compiler Toolkit to create languages.
I have wanted a number of times, particularly after generic
tokens that might or might end in \w. So feel
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:32:02AM -0700, jerry gay wrote:
> > To make things a bit quicker for people writing custom versions of
> > (which may need to include "comment whitespace"), the Parrot
> > Compiler Toolkit also provides an optimized rule that matches
> > only between a pair of word char
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:16, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl
>> wrote:
>> =item * ws
>>
>> Match whitespace between tokens.
>>
>> =item * space
>>
>> Match a single whitespace character. Hence C< > is equivalent to C<
>> + >.
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
> =item * ws
>
> Match whitespace between tokens.
>
> =item * space
>
> Match a single whitespace character. Hence C< > is equivalent to C<
> + >.
The definitions of and above are incorrect, or at least
mislea
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
: added new rule to enable definition of .
is bad design, because people will think it matches a whole word,
and it's unnecessary because it duplicates \w.
Larry
Author: finanalyst
Date: 2009-03-08 09:43:16 +0100 (Sun, 08 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 25745
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
Log:
Added descriptions to standard rules, regrouped rules, added new rule to
enable definition of .
Eliminated deprecated .
Changed deprecated to and deprecated