Re: \z vs \Z vs $

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:16:20 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:

>>That was my second thought. I kinda like it, because //s would have two
>>effects:
>
>> + let . match a newline too (current)
>
>> + let /$/ NOT accept a trailing newline (new)
>
>Don't forget /s's other meaning.

I gather you're talking about //s making perl ignore the setting of $*.
You're right, I didn't know that. But I doubt if it's that important,
this variable already has been marked as deprecated since Perl5 came
out, about 5 years ago. It's a good candiadte to be removed in Perl6.

My point is: to most people, //s already mostly means "treat \n as an
ordinary character". Let's draw this through, and make //s remove all
special meanings of "\n", in particular WRT /$/.

Then, there's the matter of combining //m and //s. It would have no
effect in that case, because //m makes /$/ behave like /\n|\z/. //ms
wouldn't change that.

p.s. The mnemonic of //s (single line) would not make any sense any
more. It never really did work.

-- 
	Bart.