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Re^3: Perl Complains of Nested Quantifiersby demerphq (Chancellor) |
on May 22, 2012 at 21:33 UTC ( [id://971883]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
FWIW the "possessive modifier" is simply syntactic sugar for (?>...) so (?>x+) should produce exactly the same optree as x++.
so there is nothing stopping you using it in 5.8.8
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