You're right about the namespace thing. "Regexp" is abominable, but it's the current namespace.

Regexp::English has very little in common with Regexp::Common, however. One is a library of common regexes. The other is a wrapper around qr with a few handy features.

I like the idea about providing other languages, though. It would be useful to abstract out the common features and use glob aliasing to build the appropriate sub and method names for various other languages. Supporting locales could be tricky, though.

Supposing this did become the parent to all sort of language-specific long regex modules, what would it be called? Regexp::Easy? Regexp::Language? Regexp::Long? Regexp::Language::Base?

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 1: Pondering Regex::English by chromatic
in thread Pondering Regex::English by chromatic

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