Rumors of Next Apocalypse

OK, so it's not official, but according to Nat Torkington's journal on use.perl (entry for May 30), Larry will publish the new Apocalypse next week. This one will be about regular expressions in Perl 6. The Exegesis will follow shortly thereafter, but may take longer due to the fact that TheDamian is on the road.

P.S.
I know this is a Perl Rumor rather than Perl News, but I'm still trying to figure out what's appropriate in this section....

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Re: Rumors of Next Apocalypse by blakem (Monsignor) on May 30, 2002 at 20:34 UTC
TheDamian dropped a few hints about A5 at Re: Perl6 and Extreme Programming For a more complex example, Larry showed the design team the first draft of A5 yesterday. It's sensational! He's heavily refactored the regex syntax, and the result is that simple regexes become vastly more readable, and complex regexes vastly easier to get right. -Blake	[reply]
Re: Rumors of Next Apocalypse by Juerd (Abbot) on May 30, 2002 at 22:19 UTC
Using Google, a rather interesting URL can be found: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg09651.html. I wonder how much of this got changed :). - Yes, I reinvent wheels. - Spam: Visit eurotraQ.	[reply]
Re: Re: Rumors of Next Apocalypse by Ovid (Cardinal) on May 30, 2002 at 22:55 UTC
Hey, that's awesome. If I understood it, the following regex is much simpler: `my $var = '...'; print 'Good' if '...Ovid' =~ /\Q$var\E(?=Ovid)/;` [download] That regex is going to become: `/$var<before:Ovid>/` [download] Much nicer :) Cheers, Ovid Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Rumors of Next Apocalypse by Elian (Parson) on May 30, 2002 at 23:35 UTC
A5 may well hit the streets next week, yep. It is, to say the least, a rather impressive improvement to the regex syntax and regex functionality. And it's all good. IMHO, at least. ;-)	[reply]