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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 09:05 PM 1/11/2002 -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> >I have a design question here. Why did we take the approach of having a
> >match method on every single vtable, instead of having a vtable for
> >regular expressions, and have regex be an object (like Perl 5)?
>
> So we could do:
>
> @results = @foo ^=~ /bar/;
>
> Basically to allow hypermatches.
Would that become something like this:
@results = @foo.match(qr/bar/);
where the 'match' method is called on the PerlArray object, or would it
be more like:
@results = map { $_.match(qr/bar/); } @foo; # Forgive the mixed p5/p6
where the match method is called on each element of @foo?
- D
<dmlloyd@tds.net>
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