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Mark GardnerAny <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RakuLang</a> core hackers want to take up this challenge?<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegularExpressions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegularExpressions</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegExps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegExps</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegExes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegExes</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegEx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegEx</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/@gd/110718818730295923" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ruby.social/@gd/110718818730295923</a>

Mark Gardner<a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@regehr</a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/@commodore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@commodore</a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/@dev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dev</a> There is even a (low-severity, a/k/a “cruel”) <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PerlCritic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PerlCritic</a> policy to discourage everything but $_, @_, $], and numbered <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegularExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegularExpression</a> capture variables: <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitPunctuationVars" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitPunctuationVars</a><a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitMatchVars" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitMatchVars</a> already protects you against the performance-sapping $`, $&, and $' match variablesAnd you can configure your own prohibited list with <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitEvilVariables" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitEvilVariables</a><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perl</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegEx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegEx</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegExp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegExp</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegExes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegExes</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegExps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegExps</a>

Mark Gardner<a href="https://chaos.social/@sjn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sjn</a> <a href="https://planet.chrisbeckstrom.com/users/cb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cb</a> 99% of the “<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perl</a> is line noise” complaints are because of unformatted <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RegularExpressions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegularExpressions</a>. Every language worth anything eventually supports them, but only <a href="https://chirp.social/@Perl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Perl</a> (and <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#awk</a>, earlier) makes them first-class citizens. And with Perl you can format and comment them for readability: <a href="https://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut#Embedding-comments-and-modifiers-in-a-regular-expression" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut#Embedding-comments-and-modifiers-in-a-regular-expression</a>We format the rest of our code for humans. Why not <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/regexps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regexps</a>?<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PerlCritic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PerlCritic</a> can warn against bad regexps: <a href="https://metacpan.org/search?size=200&q=module%3APerl%3A%3ACritic%3A%3APolicy%3A%3ARegularExpressions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/search?size=200&q=module%3APerl%3A%3ACritic%3A%3APolicy%3A%3ARegularExpressions</a><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/regex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regex</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/regexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regexes</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coding</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareDevelopment</a>

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