Re: IT DOESN'T WORK Re: [PATCH English.pm] Removing the regex nastiness (finally)

[Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:48:14 EST, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>I lied, it doesn't work... or rather it works intermitently.  And I
>don't know why.  For some reason I can get it working in the debugger
>but not when run normally.  And to top it all off I've gotten it to
>segfault under 5.005_03.
>
>I have this sinking feeling that Perl -must- see $& at compile or
>parse time for it to be usefully populated, which means I'd have to
>fall back to my original idea of "use English qw(:NOREGEX);" which is
>obviously not nearly as desireable.
>
>I will play with it on the train home.  

I'd advise picking a more useful todo item than hacking English.pm,
because it is a dead end.  :-(

English.pm is destined to go away eventually.  (See the archives for
relevant discussion.)


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

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