Re: [Expectperl-discuss] quotes around $scalar

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:11:42AM -0500, Blackstone, J. David wrote:
>   Another thing I meant to say about regexes is I think it would be really
> cool if we could drop -re altogether.

	I don't see why you'd want to drop it. It'd be a slight bit of cruft,
but I can't see it breaking anything.  -re is also familiar for folks migrating
from Tcl.

>  To my mind it seems like the method
> should use ref to see if you've passed a qr// regex or a plain scalar.  Of
> course, my mind doesn't work like anyone else's, and it would break backward
> compatibility.
> 

	It won't if you leave -re in and allow folks to use either method. 
Definitely the qr// method seems more perlish.

	Austin