Perl's regexes have rarely been "reg". I heard someone (chip?) call them irregexes. I have no problem calling them regexes, though. With the number of languages working with PCREs (Perl-compatible regular expressions), our regexes might become the standard someday.

But Perl 6's regexes make me think more of grammars than patterns.

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