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Perl 6 offers great tools for composing regexes, thus making them reusable. This inspires programmers to carefully organize and test their regexes, just like regular code.
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Perl 6 has a built-in type called byte , so if you leave out the ampersand, you’ll accidentally reference this type instead.
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In Python, it’s even more complicated, since whitespace at the start of a line is significant, except when it’s inside an expression.
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The assertion <!ww> matches every exception within a word.
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Remember that the leading dot in <.ws> causes the regex not to capture. Since the ws routine is all about whitespace that we don’t particularly care about, not capturing its match makes sense.
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Lenz, M. (2017). Reusing and Composing Regexes. In: Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3228-6_8
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