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* Tony Cook via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2015-05-12 02:30]:
> Or we could take /$null/ meaning 'use the last match' out the back and
> bury it.
Having the empty pattern mean “use the last matched pattern” is a fine
convention for a text editor, which is where it came from. But at least
since regexp objects (qr//) were added to Perl, there has been a way to
explicitly refer to patterns as first-class values. With that given, the
right peg to hang this feature off of is a ${^LAST_MATCHED_PATTERN} (or
whatever it be called), as opposed to a special case in pattern syntax.
I would really like to see that happen eventually.
It’s going to require a long deprecation cycle. But fortunately this is
a case where the replacement can be introduced before the bad design is
phased out, which allows a graceful roll-over with a long lead time.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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