Re: perl6-language-regex summary for 20000920

On Thu 21 Sep, Hugo wrote:
> perl6-language-regex
> 
> Summary report 20000920
> 
> Mark-Jason Dominus has relinquished the wg chair due to the pressure
> of other commitments; I'll be taking over the chair for the short
> time remaining. Thanks to Mark-Jason for all his hard work.
> 
> I'll be contacting the authors of all outstanding RFCs shortly to
> encourage them to work towards freezing them as soon as practical.
> 
> Hugo
> 

Welcome to the job


> RFC 112: Assignment within a regex  (Richard Proctor)
> 
> No discussion.

There was some before you joined the list - I have a couple of things
I want to tidy up.

> RFC 145: Brace-matching for Perl Regular Expressions  (Eric Roode)
> 
> No discussion directly about this RFC. The discussion of XML/HTML-
> -specific extensions continued for a short while, but has not
> resulted in an RFC.

I would like to see what was proposed in the discussions about bracket
matching written up in a new version of this RFC (even if it is eventually
dropped)

> RFC 165: Allow variables in tr///  (Richard Proctor)
> 
> Surprisingly, no discussion.

There was lots prior to you joining the list - this is almost frozen

> 
> RFC 166: Alternative lists and quoting of things  (Richard Proctor)
> 
> New version, with a new name (was 'Additions to regexs'). This RFC
> is not currently available from the archive due to a misfiling, but
> you'll find it here:
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00350.html
> 
> This removes two of the three original suggestions, and expands on
> the remaining one. Mark-Jason pointed out that the (new) extension
> to (?\Q$foo) is not needed.

An update will follow

> RFC 198: Boolean Regexes (Richard Proctor)
> 
> No discussion.

About to go to issue 2.

> 
> New RFCS

Please take a look at my posting "Generalized additions to regexes"
this is a sort of proto RFC.

Richard

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