Re: RFC 331 (v2) Consolidate the $1 and C<\1> notations

On 1 Oct 2000 06:26:40 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

>If you did the following:
>
>C<"Bilbo Baggins" =~ /((\w+)\s+(\w+))/>
>
>Then @/ would contain the following:
>
>C<$/[0]> the compiled equivalent of C</((\w+)\s+(\w+))/>, 
>
>C<$/[1]> the string "Bilbo Baggins"
>
>C<$/[2]> the string "Bilbo"
>
>C<$/[3]> the string "Baggins"

It's not clear to me why you picked @/ as the name for the array. For
mnemonic reasons, i.e. similarity with existing special variables, @& or
@+ (see $& and $+) would make more sense. Well, @+ is taken...

-- 
	Bart.