Re: [Expectperl-discuss] quotes around $scalar

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

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:00:25PM +0200, Roland Giersig wrote:
> Quoting "Blackstone, J. David" <jda...@ci...>:
> 
> >   Another thing I meant to say about regexes is I think it would be
> > really cool if we could drop -re altogether.  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.
> 
> Right, and that's why it's not gonna happen.  Please note that with the
> new syntax with callbacks it's already the default:
> 
>   $exp->expect($timeout, 
>                [ "regexp", \&callback ],
>                [ qr/regexp/, \&callback ],);
> 

	Btw, just noticed this. Did you mean:

   $exp->expect($timeout,
                [ "regexp", \&callback ],
                  ^^^^^^^^

	"substring"? If we allow for a Regex to be passed, DWIM would seem
to indicate that a non-Regex would be a substring.
	Gee, come to think of it, if we allow for Regex objects to be
passed, we probably don't need the ugly tomfoolery for multiline matching, etc.

	Austin