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The design of regular expressions is different than any other version from any other language to improve readability along with other improvements. In Perl 6 r
by b2gills 10y ago
The design of regular expressions is different than any other version from any other language to improve readability along with other improvements.
In Perl 6 regexes are seen as a type of method (that is they are literally implemented as a type of method in Rakudo)
Grammars tend to look like a cross between BNF, and well Perl. https://stackoverflow.com/a/41770672/1337 https://stackoverflow.com/a/41770672/1337
Perl 6 regexes have longest term matching using |, or sequential matching like Perl 5 using ||.
Since regexes are methods, they can take arguments as well.