Re: RFC 216 (v1) POD should tolerate white space.
[email protected] (Peter Scott) Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:55:31 -0700
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At 09:19 AM 9/13/00 -0700, I wrote: >At 10:38 AM 9/13/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: >> > 2. Allowing $/ (or its successor, perhaps set on a per-filehandle >> > basis) to be a regular expression, not a string. (Surely there's an RFC >> > on that somewhere.) >> >>This is a good idea too, and should probably be considered independently. > >*Applause* There is no RFC on it unless it is hopelessly mistitled. This >is something I've wanted for a long time. Someone working on the RFC? Actually the RFC isn't hopelessly mistitled; it's RFC 93, "Regex: Support for incremental pattern matching". It has everything in there, it just might benefit from explicitly saying, "This is how people who want $/ to be a regex can get what they want" even though it may not be called $/ in Perl 6. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies