Wouldn't readability sort of defeat the whole purpose of perl? :-)
/ Johan Sundström (a hugging punishment!)
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2003-01-30 15:22: Subject: Real-life PCRE vs Regexp benchmarking
Side note: Larry Wall has been heard to speculate seriously about revising the Perl regexp syntax for Perl version 6, partly to make it more readable, and partly to give it more expressive power.
/ Leif Stensson, Lysator