Somehow I strongly doubt that Java's RE engine is fully Ilya compatible...

Actually looking at the docs I see a list of features that Perl supports that Java does not. I don't see on that list the features that Perl 5.6 supports that 5.005 did not. At least one of the features that Perl "does not" support, Perl actually does. (See the (?>pattern) construct for, "Greedy and will not back off.") There are other features which are missing from their documentation as well, for instance overloading the RE engine.

Furthermore I would be interested to see some benchmarks. Perl's RE engine is not just noted for flexibility, but also for performance. And the syntax is significantly more cumbersome than Perl's.

In other words with this release I would say that Sun is not coming level with Perl, or even close to it. Rather they are getting to where JavaScript has been for a few years...

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Not really Perl but... by tilly
in thread Not really Perl but... by r.joseph

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