Author: ph10 Date: To: Zoltán Herczeg CC: Pcre-dev, ND Subject: 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.
