Re: Perl 5's "non-greedy" matching can be TOO greedy!

[email protected] ("Deven T. Corzine") Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:59:34 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.regex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:39:08AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > Tell me how you can do that without breaking much existing code.
> 
> Pssst, Randal, this is Perl 6, not p5p.

That's why I never suggested fixing it in Perl 5 -- the chance of breaking
any existing code did NOT seem worth considering for something so minor.

But if Perl 6 is likely to break a few things anyway, then this would be an
appropriate time to consider such a change.  (If it actually makes sense.)

Deven