Re: Best practice or cargo cult?

How hard would it be to write a pragma to do this? Or does one already exist? I'm thinking something like...

use warnings;
use strict;
use PBP::xsm;

=~ /xsm is on/;
=~ /(?-x)(?-s)m is on, x and s if off/; #or whatever the appropriate s
+yntax for switching off regex options... ??
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Could be a nifty way of anticipating the Coming of Perl 6. Whenever that'll be...

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Re^2: Best practice or cargo cult? by TheDamian (Vicar) on Jun 21, 2006 at 12:49 UTC
It's called Regexp::DefaultFlags	[reply]
Re^3: Best practice or cargo cult? by Jim (Curate) on Jun 21, 2006 at 16:18 UTC
`s/ (?<= Regexp:: ) Autof (?= lags) /DefaultF/gxms ? 1 : 0;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Best practice or cargo cult? by Jim (Curate) on Jun 21, 2006 at 16:39 UTC
That would be a yes (1). I just found this on the PBP errata page: `[242] 1st paragraph; Regexp::Autoflags does not exist in CPAN. Regexp::Autoflags should be: Regexp::DefaultFlags` [download]	[reply] [d/l]