How do you say %+ in English?

jaldhar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using perl 5.10s' new named capture buffer feature to make my code more readable. It works but following the PBP guidelines, I want to use English instead of all the magic punctuation. But as far as I can tell, there is no alias for %+, the hash containing the named buffers. Am I missing something?

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Re: How do you say %+ in English? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 10, 2009 at 17:07 UTC
`%LAST_PARENT_MATCH` works due to an implementation side-effect (which is why the name doesn't quite fit). `>perl -MEnglish -le"'foo' =~ /(?<n>.)/; print $LAST_PAREN_MATCH{n}" foo` [download] Update*: Reworded for clarity	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How do you say %+ in English? by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 10, 2009 at 17:01 UTC
~~You're not missing anything, there's no English name for that.~~ ~~We had that discussion in the CB the other day, and somebody (of course I forgot who) wanted to prepare a patch for that, but I don't know if it made its way to p5p yet.~~ Update: please ignore, ikegami proved me wrong. It's just missing in the documentation Second update: patched documentation, Rafael applied it - so it should be documented in future versions of perl.	[reply]
Re^2: How do you say %+ in English? by jaldhar (Vicar) on Feb 10, 2009 at 17:36 UTC
Thank you and ikegami for the replies. It's not clear, did Rafael document LAST_PAREN_MATCH or will there be a more appropriate name? As the whole point of this exercise is to help in maintenance, I would rather stick with %+ then use something which will change in my next update of Perl. -- જલધર	[reply]
Re^3: How do you say %+ in English? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 10, 2009 at 17:46 UTC
They kept the name An alternative was suggested almost a year ago, but no action was taken.	[reply]


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