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Re^5: curious regex result for perl 5.8.8by GrandFather (Saint) |
| on Jun 22, 2016 at 04:13 UTC ( [id://1166228]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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You misunderstand. Backward compatibility is important. The behavior in the context of prior art is correct and consistent. The behavior in the context of naive expected outcome following a failed match is bogus. The Apple/Python/PHP/Perl 6/... attitude of "onward and bugger legacy code" is anathema (although I understand where it comes from). This is not that!
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