Re: perl6-language-regex summary for 20000911

Nathan Wiger wrote:
> 
> > RFC 145: Brace-matching for Perl Regular Expressions  (Eric Roode)
> >
> > Nathan Wiger suggested a special syntax for matching XML-style
> > open and close tags.
> 
> This died in favor of a more general brace-matching construct, ?[ and
> ?], which could be used in this capacity:
> 
>    /(?['<h2>' => '</h2>')Stuff(?])/
> 
> See here for details:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-regex%40perl.org/msg00256.html
> 
> I believe Eric Roode and I think something like this is cool, but I also
> agree that piling stuff into regex's is getting really hairy. Hence the
> reason I withdrew from this discussion pending others' ideas of
> alternatives.
> 

I too am looking forward to the alternative MJD has promised.  Until
that
time, perhaps RFC145 should be updated with this syntax.


> 
> -Nate

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