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Sunday, July 07, 2002LWN.net: Limbo: a new Red Hat Linux beta. Still downloading...
Posted @ 5:43:34 PM ( comments)
Allison Randal, Damian Conway: Synopsis 5. "Just as you can have anonymous subs and named subs you can have anonymous regexes and named regexes:"
rule ident { [<alpha>|_] \w* }
# and later...
@ids = grep /<ident>/, @strings;
# and then refer to named regexes, such as:
rule serial_number { <[A-Z]> \d<8> }
rule type { alpha | beta | production | deprecated | legacy } Neat and slightly shocking (for someone who's been doing Perl for eight years) syntax. Posted to perl @ 5:41:04 PM ( comments)
Michael Gorman: And where do XML tags come from? "Which is the better source for XML Tags, an IT System Centric or Data Centric Approach?" [Column Two] Posted to xml @ 5:27:41 PM ( comments)
Updated 8/22/2002; 5:24:25 PM