A Perl 6 Regex is a more specific type of Method, so I had the idea that maybe I could do something black-magicky in a regular method that produces the same thing. I particularly am curious about doing this without changing any grammars.
However, looking at Perl6/Grammar.nqp (which I barely understand), that this is really not an inheritance thing. I think, based on my reading, that the Perl 6 grammar switches slangs (sub languages) when it sees one of the regex declarators. That is, a different grammar parses the guts of regex { ... } and method {...}.
So, first, is that right?
Then, just for giggles, I thought that maybe I could be inside a method block but tell it to use a different slang (see for instance, "Slangs" from the 2013 Perl 6 Advent Calendar or "Slangs Today").
However, everything I've found looks like it wants to change the grammar. Is there a way to do it without that and return a string that is treated as if it had come out of regex { ... }?
method actually-returns-a-regex {
...
}
I don't have any practical use for this. I just keep wondering about it.