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
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2003-01-30 01:32: Subject: Real-life PCRE vs Regexp benchmarking
If the permanent solution would be my project (which still is far from production quality), I don't think the syntax or the feature set will be a problem since Perl regexps are among goals I aim for.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS