Re: [ID 20000111.009] Better English

[Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>]

There was once a suggestion that use English should be a pragma
(even though it is not all lowercase) to allow the parser to understand
the long names for the variables.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> 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 My impression is that the patch was withdrawn.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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References to:

Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>

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