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Re: qr// in $/ (was Re: Ideas for 5.10)

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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
August 17, 2002 13:21
Subject:
Re: qr// in $/ (was Re: Ideas for 5.10)
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.44.0208171313480.3386-100000@london.wall.org
It would surely be nice if Perl 5 could take a cue from Perl 6 here
and attach regexes to "extensible" strings rather than continuing
to overload the long-known-to-be-lousy $/ interface.  Even attaching
the regex to an I/O layer would be better than that.

Larry
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