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• Regexps as... XML! (Score:5, Funny)

  by Matts (1087)

  Yes, I knew it was coming, ultimately Larry's plan is merely to encode regexps as XML! This will make things so much easier in porting from Perl 5 to Perl 6. No longer will you need uglinesses like:

  /^
    (\d+)        # id
    (T?)         # TP
    _
    (\d+)        # SeqNo
    X
  /xg

  And instead we can have beautiful XML regexps like:

  /
    <start-of-string/>
    <capture>
      <one-or-more>
   
  • Re:Regexps as... XML! (Score:1)

    by djberg96 (2603) on 2002.04.23 14:08 (#7404) Journal

    I heard that this was one of the examples they're going to use in ORA's upcoming release, How to convert absolutely everything to XML (and like it).

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    • Re:Regexps as... XML! (Score:3, Funny)

      by gnat (29)

      Tsk tsk, that's not an O'Reilly title. You must be thinking of "Fucking Everything Up With XML", "XML Nightmares: The Definitive Guide", or "Hell & XML".

      --Nat
      • Re:Regexps as... XML! (Score:4, Funny)

        by jhi (318) <jhi@iki.fi> on 2002.04.23 16:46 (#7422) Homepage Journal

        Don't you also have "XML Pocket Reference" (1183 pages) in the works?
        

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      • Re:Regexps as... XML! (Score:3, Funny)

        by ziggy (25)

        "Hell & XML"

        ITYMTS "Hell &amp; XML". :-)