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Re: [PATCH] deprecate ?PATTERN?

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From:
David Golden
Date:
November 24, 2010 11:42
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] deprecate ?PATTERN?
Message ID:
AANLkTikbXO6niZQRv4PWFo3d69P8t8mK4vVxdcoBpF_F@mail.gmail.com
Thanks.  Applied (with minor edits) as commit
725a61d709bfdf8b3423a1409027c3ea9cd0c4f9

I'll close the other ticket, too.

-- David

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> In discussing (on #p5p) possible new operators, we ran into the issue
> that the obscure ?PATTERN? syntax gets in the way of most uses we could
> potentially make of the question mark.  It was proposed that we could
> deprecate that syntax to reclaim the question mark.  Attached patch
> does so.  It leaves the match-once semantics still available through
> m?PATTERN?.
>
> -zefram
>

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