Re: To get things started...

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:09:03AM -0500, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "ST" == Sam Tregar <[email protected]> writes:

> Look throught the RFCs this was one of Damian Conway's.
> 
> <chaim> =~ /RFC/

http://dev.perl.org/rfc/93.html

I know I read it, I just don't remember reading it.

  IMPLEMENTATION

  Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not an magician! 

  Probably needs to be integrated with IO disciplines too. 

He's right, but Nick's intending to implement an unread() (rather than just
ungetc()) so there should be enough rope for people to implement whatever
knots take their fancy (including the Jack Ketch knot)

Hugo makes some comments about implementation of this in:
http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg00459.html

Apart from that I find very little comment in the archives.
v1:   http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg01979.html
v2:   http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg00029.html
v3:   http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg00354.html

> ST> Perhaps we really need a new kind of regex that works by-design against
> ST> streams of bytes?

I don't think any change is needed in the regex syntax. I think just being
careful to use minimal matching whenever possible should be sufficient.

Nicholas Clark