Re: What's in a Regex (was RFC 145)

[email protected] (Mark-Jason Dominus) Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:47:58 -0400

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.regex
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> >   2. Many people - including Larry - have voiced their desire
> >      to see =~ die a horrible death
> 
> Please provide a look-up-able reference to Larry's saying that he
> wanted to =~ to die horrible death.  

Larry said:

# Well, the fact is, I've been thinking about possible ways to get rid
# of =~ for some time now, so I certainly don't mind brainstorming in
# this direction.

That is in 
        <[email protected]>

which is archived at 

        http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00003.html

I think Nathan was exaggerating here, but maybe he knows something I don't.