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* Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> [2010-08-01 22:35]: > My alternative suggestion was to introduce a new grouping > construct, which I tentatively called (?~sixm:) (I don't much > like that, but there aren't many alternatives at this point), > which *does* do what you expect; and use that for > stringification instead. That way we change the stringification > once, now, and then never again. I’m unsure about how good an idea that is. Presumably the defaults can change in a future version of Perl, in which case a stringified pattern that uses this syntax will mean different things on different Perl versions. In some cases this will even magically do what you want, but it could equally be a pitfall. Overall I think it *will* lessen difficulties overall, so it’s probably worth having… but it will not fix the problem (of, in the general sense, semantics versioning) so much as trade one manifestation for another. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next