Table of contents

Intro1

Intro2

Why

Everything’s extended

Metacharacter reform 1

Metacharacter reform 2

Assertions

Grammatical Assertions

Range Assertions

Sigil Assertions

Larry gets the colon

Backslash reform

Anchor Reform

Modifier Reform 1

Modifier Reform 2

Deferred Regex Rules

Null String Reform

Backtracking Reform

Rules and Grammars 1

Rules and Grammars 2

Author: Johan Vromans

E-mail: jvromans@squirrel.nl

Homepage: http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans

Further information:
This is an informal presentation on the expected changes of the Perl6 regular expression patterns, held at the meeting of the Amsterdam Perl Mongers, November 5th, 2002. It is in no way complete, and may even prove to be incorrect.