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• Commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work
  > I don't think you understand what brian is demonstrating is not obvious based on just what the documentation you quoted says. Most people do not automatically think of using multiple ^ anchors to match subsequent lines. Sure, but it...
• Commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work
  It seems that a lot of people just uses regex modifier without even knowing what they meant. You use "/xmg" as a modifier. The /m modifier means: From the perlre documentation: > Treat string as multiple lines. That is, change...
• Commented on Book Report - December 2014
  Sid Burn: You didn't really need any module at all to explain classes. I would say, someone only has really understand object-orientation if he knew how to code OO in an imperative or functional style. And that is the most...
• Commented on Are Abilities Roles?
  To answer your first question if Ability should be a role. No it shouldn't. Just having an Ability class is fine. Another point, you said a ability where you can't change the name is of no use. Why? In whatever...

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• Davs commented on Are Abilities Roles?

  Wow, really good comment about roles vs inheritance!

• A. Sinan Unur commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work

  I don't think you understand what brian is demonstrating is not obvious based on just what the documentation you quoted says. Most people do not automatically think of using multiple ^ anchors to match subsequent lines.

  The ^ and $ anchors are generally used as in the simplified example of:

  my @matches = $string =~ m/
  	^ This\ is\ (\S.+) $
  	/xm;

  with brian's example will result in:

  Matches are line one a cat a dog a bird

  which corresponds to your "So sure, it does work on multiple lines."

  brian uses the two ^…

• A. Sinan Unur commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work

  I messed up the pattern in my example (too early here), but the point still holds:

  my @matches = $string =~ m/
  	^This\ is\ a\ (\S+)
      /xmg;
  

  will print

  Matches are cat dog bird

  as opposed to brian's example which only matches in case of two subsequent lines that match the pattern.

• A. Sinan Unur commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work

  We are in agreement. Just note that any programming language has a bazillion details. No one can remember everything, and the subsets people can constantly keep in their heads vary across time and people.

  It so happens that I frequently doubt my memory and/or understanding of various details of a specific language. In those cases, just trying out alternatives, and seeing what they do is a great way to remember the detail for the next time.

• Aristotle commented on Huh. Multiple beginning-of-line anchors work

  I would have been surprised if it didn’t work that way.