Re: [ID 20000111.009] Better English

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

Jeff Pinyan writes:
> 
> On Jan 11, Rob McMillin said:
> 
> > This is a bug report for perl from rlm@doubledogmusic.com,
> > generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.
> > 
> > There's a great deal of complaining in the English module that you can't
> > use it unless you can live with a really bad performance hit in all your
> > regexps. How about an "English::Good" module? This would basically be
> > the same thing as the English module, but it wouldn't include the names
> > MATCH, PREMATCH, and POSTMATCH. English could then import (and
> > re-export) everything from English::Good as its own if you absolutely,
> > positively had to have all the above.
> 
> The $`, $&, and $' variables have been optimized in a recent version of
> Perl, but anyway, I've written a module not unlike your request.

My impression is that the patch was withdrawn.

Ilya

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