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I'm a huge regex fan too. The main thing I love about Perl that is missing from most (all?) other languages is that regex is plain old syntax, not an object/fun

by hnick 7y ago

I'm a huge regex fan too. The main thing I love about Perl that is missing from most (all?) other languages is that regex is plain old syntax, not an object/function/module.

Grinnz 7y ago
Javascript has adopted this, among other nice things it's gotten from Perl.