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* Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> [2010-08-05 20:35]: > * Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> [2010-08-05 19:45]: > > > > * karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2010-08-04 15:40]: > > > > >FWIW, I have given this some thought, and came to the > > > > >conclusion that Perl is almost certainly never going to > > > > >change the defaults, because of the backward > > > > >compatibility issues. > > > > If the meaning of `(?~:)` is not allowed to change, then it > > will no longer be an accurate representation, so patterns > > will have to stringify to `(?~Xy:)`. > > Wrong. (?~:), with no further flags, means 'The default, > whatever that happens to be in this version of perl'. Don’t tell me – tell Karl. :-) * karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2010-08-07 16:25]: > I guess I'll drop this too, as I'm apparently the last person > who thinks it is a good idea. The problem with I see in > Aristotle's suggestion is that how do people get trained? It's > not an obvious solution or we wouldn't have the various cases > where things break. Yeah, that is indeed a concern. At minimum it would have to be included somewhere in the regex documentation for copypasting; probably at minimum where `qr//` is documented. Also, a scan of CPAN for `xism` should reveal places where people have done it the old way; me and/or someone else(s) could go through these and contact the maintainers or even send patches. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next