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in reply to regexp /gs oddity or bug

Just another data point: I run perl 5.6.0 on SlakWare 7.1.0 and the output I got from the script, 
$_ = "is this odd or not?";
@a = /(.*? )/gs;
print @a;

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was: "is this odd or". nothing was beyond the or

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