Re: RFC 110 (v2) counting matches
[email protected] (Tom Christiansen)
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.language.regex |
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| Message-ID | <24339.967564273@chthon> |
>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. Larry's on record as preferring not to have us going down the road of using distinct upper and lower case regex switches. The distance between //c and //C, say, is far too narrow. --tom