atom feed15 messages in org.perl.perl5-portersRe: Pattern matching in SNOBOL4 (long...
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Mark-Jason DominusApr 15, 1998 10:23 pm 
Ilya ZakharevichApr 15, 1998 11:34 pm 
Moore, PaulApr 16, 1998 2:16 am 
Moore, PaulApr 16, 1998 2:49 am 
Chaim FrenkelApr 16, 1998 6:50 am 
Mark-Jason DominusApr 16, 1998 7:20 am 
Ilya ZakharevichApr 16, 1998 9:53 am 
Ilya ZakharevichApr 16, 1998 10:08 am 
Larry WallApr 16, 1998 10:41 am 
Chaim FrenkelApr 16, 1998 11:03 am 
Ton HospelApr 16, 1998 3:18 pm 
kst...@chapin.eduApr 16, 1998 4:41 pm 
Peter PrymmerApr 16, 1998 4:55 pm 
Ton HospelApr 17, 1998 1:39 pm 
Ton HospelApr 17, 1998 2:20 pm 
Subject:Re: Pattern matching in SNOBOL4 (long, digression)
From:Larry Wall (lar@wall.org)
Date:Apr 16, 1998 10:41:07 am
List:org.perl.perl5-porters

Chaim Frenkel writes: : Any problems with using a non-alphabetic (/^)?

Yes, I'd probably be a curmudgeon and veto it just for being unreadable and outside of current practice, leaving aside the fact that /foo/^1 currently means something, albeit something relatively meaningless.

Larry