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On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 03:27:19AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote: > Currently we don't define any utility procedures > for manipulating SREs, and its use is analogous > to e.g. w/nocase, for which the same argument > holds, so for consistency the syntax made more > sense. Of course. After I sent the mail, this occurred to me too :) > > I like that idea. I always found it rather confusing > > that names were _also_ numbers. > > This, however, is how PCRE and most other > libraries work. I thought it was ubiquitous but > apparently .NET did the right (?) thing and broke > with tradition here. > > If we did use .NET semantics, SREs would no > longer simply be an alternate syntax for PCREs, I think you're completely right about both things. I didn't know that PCRE did named submatches like this (didn't even know it had them at all :P). Cheers, Peter -- http://www.more-magic.net