Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly

Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by laichzeit0 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:00PM (#23632350)

Agreed. Regex is a “part of the language” not a bolt on library like you have in Python. It’s one of those cases where you don’t even know how crap regex is in another language if you’ve never used Perl.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by staycoolboy on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @07:05PM (#23634882)

I mentioned Boost's Regex in C++ (boost is essentially a different language), but I didn't bother to mention my experiments with regex in C, for example:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160308115653/http://peope.net/o...

I mean, you can do it, it just lacks elegance. And TBH, I still prefer C for lots of things.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by sysread on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:07PM (#23632436)

You should check out janet-lang.org. It's got built in peg parsing.

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