Re^3: The 'g' modifier in compiled regex

Please don't request this feature. One of the big advantages of Perl is that, to a very large extent, it does what most programmers expect, when they think about it a little. As japhy's and ikegami's comments indicate, attaching looping behavior to a pre-compiled regex is difficult to make sense of, and it would prevent the same pre-compiled regex from being used in a looping and non-looping context, as your suggested error messages indicate.

I'm confident in the Perl architects, and so I doubt they would add this type of feature, but I also think there is significant overhead to considering a suggestion. The way I see it, the more we exercise self-restraint in our suggestions, in response to feedback here in PM, the sooner we'll see a release of Perl 6.

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Re^4: The 'g' modifier in compiled regex by exussum0 (Vicar) on Apr 09, 2007 at 15:01 UTC
The way I see it, the more we exercise self-restraint in our suggestions, in response to feedback here in PM, the sooner we'll see a release of Perl 6. If they don't want new features past a certain date, then set that date, or suggest that it occurs. Last I checked, P6 will be done when it's done. I could see good coming out of suggesting something being put in place. It can cause a new idea for the architects to think about a happy medium between what the architects want and what he and some people like him expect.	[reply]

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Re^4: The 'g' modifier in compiled regex
by exussum0 (Vicar) on Apr 09, 2007 at 15:01 UTC

The way I see it, the more we exercise self-restraint in our suggestions, in response to feedback here in PM, the sooner we'll see a release of Perl 6.

I could see good coming out of suggesting something being put in place. It can cause a new idea for the architects to think about a happy medium between what the architects want and what he and some people like him expect.

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