Re: RFC 165 (v1) Allow Varibles in tr///
[email protected] (Nathan Wiger)
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.language.regex |
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| Organization | Sun Microsystems |
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Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>
> I think the reason this hasn't been done before it because it's *not*
> quite straightforward.
Before everyone gets tunnel vision, let me point out one thing:
Accepting variables in tr// makes no sense. It defeats the purpose of
tr/// - extremely fast, known transliterations.
tr///e is the same as s///g:
tr/$foo/$bar/e == s/$foo/$bar/g
I don't think this RFC accomplishes anything, personally.
-Nate