Perl 6 is completely redesigning the regex syntax. It's now a lot clearer, more flexible and more optimizable. Can we use (a subset of) this in the std.regex library?

For an overview, see http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html

http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
is more up-to-date, but it has less rationale and fewer examples.

Steve wrote:
> Perl 6 is completely redesigning the regex syntax. It's now a lot clearer, more flexible and more optimizable. Can we use (a subset of) this in the std.regex library?
> 
> For an overview, see
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html
> 
> http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
> is more up-to-date, but it has less rationale and fewer examples.

Sure, go ahead and implement it :o).

Andrei