| Subject: | Expose regexp-related PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine::Full goodies to the world |
There are some goodies in the internals of
PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine::Full that would be of considerable interest to
(at least) people interested in taking regular expressions apart.
What I propose is adding some private routines to
PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine::Full to return the content of a given string
section, the modifiers hash, and an array of the delimiters used. The
proposal also adds public methods to PPI::Token::Regexp and
PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Regexp to wrap these private methods in something
civilized.
The proposed private methods on the quote engine are
_section_content($inx), _modifiers(), and _delimiters(). The proposed
public methods that wrap these are get_match_string(),
get_substitute_string(), get_modifiers(), and get_delimiters(). I have
no particularly strong desire to advocate for the proposed names - you
may not like the "get_" convention, in which case please go with what works.
The proposed enhancement is committed as svn revision 9985.