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On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:13:47 +0100, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a strange feeling that tom means the "empty regex syntax".
>
> Darn :)
> Very well possible. To prevent that confusion I always use m// (or m{}),
> even with grep
Only time I've used that was in a construct like:
@list = /(regex)/g;
s///g if @list;
Although with qr// it wouldn't have been hard to do without.
>> Yeah. This is stupid. We should just do this as 'dor'.
>
> I don't think we will win that argument, but you've got my vote!
I'd certainly use it, and wish it was there already. Not that 'dor' leaps
out as a great name, but it is more descriptive than 'err' is.
--
George Greer
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