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All regular expressions constructed with qr// are currently blessed
into the "Regexp" package. This can be altered on a per-regexp basis
by doing:
my $re = bless qr/Ponies/ => "My::Regexp";
But there's no way to alter the default.
The attached patch allows for specifying what package regular
expressions are blessed into by setting a package name in $^H{regobj},
this would allow for writing extensions like the attached
re::object::Test (which does nothing at the moment except retrieve the
regexp struct from the object).
Whether or not applying this is a good idea depends largely on the
efficiency of looking up things in the hints hash. There's already
such a lookup in pp_regcomp.
If list members think that this should be applied I'll submit a
documentation patch as well.
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