On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 06:51:23PM -0500, David Nicol wrote: > one of the perl6 RFCs suggested allowing a regex as a hash index > > @hash{/REGEX/} > > to mean > > @hash{ grep /REGEX/, keys %hash } but that syntax already has a meaning: %h = qw(aa 1 bb 2 cc 3); $_ = 'aa bb'; print @h{/(\w+)/}; # prints 1 print @h{/(\w+)/g}; # prints 12 -- I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.Thread Previous | Thread Next