The Perl 6 community has basically broken down into warring camps with a tremendous amount of vitriol and "not invented here" and while I still strongly believe that something like Perl 6 Regexes will eventually be the way every language treats parsing, I think it needs to grow out of a different community at this point.
A Perl 6 Regex minimal, language-neutral specification for other languages.
- The "Your Regex Here" announcement and high- level overview.
- The reference grammar that (under a conforming implementation) parses itself.
- The test tool for the reference grammar written in Perl 6.
Run it with
--helpfor full command-line info.