Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: ND CC: Pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Assertions with quantifier behaviour is Perl
incompatible
On Mon, 2 May 2011, ND wrote:
> And one more thing afterwords.
>
> The compatibility with Perl may be achieved very simply:
*In theory.*
> If A - assertion, Q - quantifier, than
> PCRE can treat 'AQ' not as error, but as '(?:A)Q'
Without looking at the code, I cannot say how easy this would be to do
*in practice*.
OK, I give in. I will take a look at this in due course. I have started
working through the list of issues for PCRE and this one is now number
21 on the list. It may take some weeks before I get to it. I do not
promise to make any changes ... it will depend on the structure of the
existing code and how I feel about changing it.
