Re: [pcre-dev] (*THEN) works differently in Perl

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Συντάκτης: ph10
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Προς: Zoltán Herczeg
Υ/ο: Pcre-dev, ND
Αντικείμενο: Re: [pcre-dev] (*THEN) works differently in Perl
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Zoltán Herczeg wrote:

> If you are right about the internal working of (*THEN), then this verb
> has a very unclear and inconsistent behavior, which is very hard to
> track for a user.


And it totally contradicts the Perl documentation, in particular, this
sentence:

Note that if this operator is used and NOT inside of an alternation
then it acts exactly like the "(*PRUNE)" operator.

But it doesn't.

Let's see what the Perl maintainers' reaction to my bug report is.

Philip

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Philip Hazel