DMD 0.148 - regular expressions

[Johan Granberg]

Walter Bright wrote:
> "Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivar at igesund.net> wrote in message 
> news:dts47r$14c0$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> I liked the idea (match expressions), just not the operator, and I thought
>> that was a common opinion...
> 
> if ("regex" ~~ "string")
>     _match. ...
> 
> The equivalent functionality can now be done with:
> 
> if (m; search("string", "regex"))
>     m. ...
> 

Why not do like this instead?

if (m;"regex" ~~ "string")
	m. ...

That would get rid of the implicit declaration of _match and just like 
usual with statements the result of ~~ could bee ignored.