Re: perl6-language-regex summary for 20000911

[email protected] (Paul Grzesina) Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:05:50 -0600 (CST)

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.regex
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> 
> perl6-language-regex
> 
> Summary report 20000911
> 
> RFC 164: Replace =~, !~, m//, s///, and tr// with match(), subst(),
>          and trade()  (Nathan Wiger)
> 
> Surprisingly, there was no discussion about this RFC this week.

I only read the announce list and must have missed this RFC earlier, but I
think "subst" is much too close to "substr" for comfort.  I find
"substitute" to be too long and annoying to type, so I suggest "replace"
instead.

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