And the difference is that the latter is more efficient to execute, though it's slower to compile
Yep, I read you loud and clear there. I gather there is some way to override the default (if for some reason I did want to use the pre 5.10 way)? Just idle curiosity.
What? What is it you want?
Was just wondering if there was a way to get the optimized regex in a scalar without Regexp::Assemble, like maybe it gets stored in some var somewhere.
No big deal if it doesn't, I am just playing/experimenting/learning at the moment.
