Amendments

Author: threadless-screw

doc/Language/regexes.pod6

@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ operators:
     $match = m/.+/; say $match; say $match.^name; # OUTPUT: «｢abc｣␤Match␤»
     $match =  /.+/; say $match; say $match.^name; # OUTPUT: «/.+/␤Regex␤»
 
-Whitespace in literal regexes is ignored insofar as the L<:sigspace
-adverb|/language/regexes#Sigspace> is not used to make whitespace syntactically
-significant.
+Whitespace in literal regexes is ignored insofar as the
+L<C<:sigspace> adverb|/language/regexes#Sigspace> is not used to make whitespace
+syntactically significant.
 
 In addition to whitespace, comments may be used inside of regexes to improve
 their readability and comprehensibility just as in Perl6 code in general. This
@@ -262,12 +262,15 @@ Examples of word characters:
 =end table
 
 The predefined character classes in the leftmost column are all of the form
-C«<name>», a hint to the fact that they are implemented as built-in L<named
-regexes|language/regexes#Subrules>. As such they are subject to the usual
-capturing semantics. This means, inter alia, that these classes do not only
-match, but also capture, installing a correspondingly named L<named
-capture|/language/regexes#Named_captures> in the resulting L<Match
-object|/type/Match>.
+C«<name>», a hint to the fact that they are implemented as built-in
+L<named regexes|/language/regexes#Subrules>.
+As such they are subject to the usual capturing semantics. This means that if
+a character class is called with the syntax C«<name>» (i.e. as indicated in
+the leftmost column), it will not only match, but also capture, installing a
+correspondingly named L<named capture|/language/regexes#Named_captures> in the
+resulting L<Match object|/type/Match>. In case just a match and no capture is
+desired, the capture may be suppressed through the use of call syntax that
+includes a leading dot: C«<.name>».
 
 Note that the character classes C«<same>», C«<wb>» and C«<ww>» are so-called
 zero-width assertions, which do not really match any character.