regular expressions questions

[Darrell]

[Derek Thomson]
> [ And now, at last, Perl 5.6 allows regexes to refer to other regexes. So
now we
> can uses regexes to parse balanced expressions like matching parenthesis.
No
> doubt this will appear in Python's re module before long. ]
>
Can't wait!
I always have this problem.
Do you have any links to what the syntax might look like ?
Nothing popped out of a web search.

--Darrell