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"Orton, Yves" wrote:
> On the contrary. The ability to stringify a regex is a crucial aspect power
> and flexibility of perls regexes.
>
> Consider the following.... (conceptual demonstration):
>
> my $iso_date_capture=qr!(\d{4})[-/\\](\d{2})[-/\\](\d{2})!;
> (my $iso_date_match=$iso_date_capture)=~s/\((?:\?[msiox-]*\:)?/(?:/g;
> $iso_date_match=qr/$iso_date_match/;
>
> print $iso_date_capture,"\n";
> print $iso_date_match,"\n";
Cool. Never used that.
In this case, the fact that qr// objects can be stringified should
probably be documented somewhere.
What do you think about Alex' patch then ? Does it count for an argument
against it ?
[but...]
> Even the magic pointer is still there the stringification lookup is
> hardcoded against the package 'Regexp'.
>
> I put a patch together (and a module) ages ago, but I never polished them
> enough to publish.
I don't remember having seen it.
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