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On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 at 15:40, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
wrote:
> I have a longterm thought that one day it'd be nice if we could have
> more, and more descriptive, string quoting and regexp flags - especially
> on substitutions. For example, I'd love to be able to replace only the
> third "foo" with "bar" by doing something, maybe using syntax like this:
>
> $str =~ s:nth(2)/foo/bar/;
>
>
what about making these attributes attributes of operator instead? eg:
$str =~ :nth(2) s:foo:bar:;
Anyway, +1 for warning and future deprecation, it will get rid of some
confusions making lexers / parsers more complicated, eg:
package m { sub x { die } };
m::x;
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