Re^4: What's wrong with Perl 6?

I don't know why you think that would help

Because countering a bad meme requires repetition and persistance. Also with a bit of luck and effort we will see Perl 5.10 released, which coupled with your advocacy should go a long way to countering this market confusion.

And you know what, even it doesnt help it would make me personally, and I suspect others as well, feel better about our efforts on the Perl 5 track.

OT: what do you recommend for dealing with all the myriad places that the term "perl compatible regular expression" is used? Its a commonly used phrase, printed in books, in library documentation, in other languages libraries, heck even MS uses the term afaik. Since the term is now ambiguous what should happen?

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$world=~s/war/peace/g

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How to rename PCRE when it's not P6 compatible? by TimToady (Parson) on May 15, 2007 at 16:27 UTC
You bring up an interesting cultural question. I didn't name PCRE, so I'm not sure I'm obligated to come up with a replacement. `:-)` But if we can manage to give away the engine this time so that people don't feel obligated to reinvent it compatibly, then we could just call it "Perl 6 Rules". Or in Californian: "Perl 6 Roolz, dude!" And then PCRE could just become one of those rebranded acronyms that people forget the original meaning of, like PIN: "Please identify yourself by typing in your personal PIN number..."	[reply]
Re: How to rename PCRE when it's not P6 compatible? by duff (Parson) on May 15, 2007 at 18:36 UTC
Indeed. The only problem with giving away the engine is that it currently requires Parrot. For some people that's too much extra baggage. But! All we have to do is make Parrot ubiquitous and we're good. :-) duff	[reply]