Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern-Matching with Ideas from Snobol4
Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern-Matching with Ideas from Snobol4
By Morris Siegel (Morrie) from NY.pm
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 08:00 AM
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Advanced
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Tags: 6 grammar matching pattern perl perl6 regexp snobol snobol4
You can find more information on the speaker's site:
- Abstract: http://www.uptownuptime.com/mmsiegel-talk-1988-abstract.html
- Talk: http://www.uptownuptime.com/mmsiegel-talk-1988.html
One of the chief reasons for Perl's popularity is its regexp pattern-matching facility, and Perl 6 is substantially more powerful than Perl 5 in that regard. Snobol4 is arguably the first widely-available language providing a pattern-matching facility, and despite its age, and despite all the new features of Perl 6, there are still some aspects in which Snobol4 pattern-matching is more powerful than that of Perl 6.
This talk provides an overview of Snobol4 pattern-matching, then presents a number of possible enhancements to Perl 6 based on ideas inspired by Snobol4 but adapted to Perl's idiom. In addition, we propose various other suggestions that are intended to make Perl 6 pattern-matching easier to learn and use.
Attended by: Brock Wilcox (awwaiid), Patrick Michaud (Pm), Stevan Little (stevan), Christoph Otto (cotto), Kenneth Graves (kag), Stephen Scaffidi (hercynium), Jason Switzer (s1n), Michael Schwern (Schwern), Victor Stevko, Christopher Madsen (cjm), Paul Lalli (MrItty), Jack Foy, James E Keenan (kid51), Josh McAdams (jmcadams), Packy Anderson, Paul Makepeace (paulm),
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