• Steve (5/5) May 15 2009 Perl 6 is completely redesigning the regex syntax. It's now a lot cleare...
• Andrei Alexandrescu (3/10) May 15 2009 Sure, go ahead and implement it :o).

Steve <steve mailinator.com> writes:

Perl 6 is completely redesigning the regex syntax. It's now a lot clearer, more
flexible and more optimizable. Can we use (a subset of) this in the std.regex
library?

For an overview, see
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html

http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
is more up-to-date, but it has less rationale and fewer examples.

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

Steve wrote:
 Perl 6 is completely redesigning the regex syntax. It's now a lot clearer,
more flexible and more optimizable. Can we use (a subset of) this in the
std.regex library?
 
 For an overview, see
 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html
 
 http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
 is more up-to-date, but it has less rationale and fewer examples.

Sure, go ahead and implement it :o).

Andrei