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

[email protected] (brian d foy) Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:23:02 -0500 (EST)

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.regex
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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.

well, we do have to translate 95% of that code to Perl 6 without a hitch.
i imagine that breaking regex behaviour in fovor of something new would
make that quite difficult.  perhaps that is not what Randal was talking
about, but it is something to consider.

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