Re: RFC 110 (v2) counting matches

Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> 
>         m/.../Count               (instead of m/.../t)
>         m/.../iCount              (instead of m/.../it)
>         m/.../Count,i             (instead of m/.../ti)
>         m/.../Count,Insensitive   (instead of m/.../ti)

Blech, no. Please. Less typing good. More typing bad.

If you're just proposing synonyms, I don't see anyone using these
besides as mneumoics. In which case, the key is just making sure that we
pick good letters.

I don't see us running out of letters. Last I checked, m// only takes
half a dozen flags. I haven't been counting, but I'm pretty sure I
haven't seen 20 new flags proposed.

If we want to use uppercase, make these unique as well. That gives us
many more combinations, and is not necessarily confusing:

   m//f      -      fast match
   m//F      -      first match
   m//i      -      case-insentitive
   m//I      -      ignore whitespace
   
And so on. This seems like a much more productive use, otherwise we're
just wasting characters.

-Nate