Re: RFC 165: Allow variables in a tr///

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:58:14 -0600

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.regex
Message-ID	<21072.967586294@chthon>

>Would there be any interest in adding these two ideas to this RFC:


>1) tr is not regex function, so it should be regularized to

>   tr(SEARCH, REPLACE, MOD, STR)

>The // tend to confuse people and make them expect tr to operate as a
>regular expression.

So what?  q/.../ is not a "regex function" either.   These are all 
pick-you-own-quotes function.  This makes no sense.

--tom