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> $brackets = qr{
> {
> (?:
> (?> [^{}]+ | (?p{ $qr }) )
> )*
> }
> }x;
>
> [ I will investigate why one cannot drop these (?:). ]
I just sent you an example of a regular expression that cores when ?: turns
into ?> in the same regex, and an example of the infinite loop problem.
>
> And probably you want m{\G(?p{ $brackets })}, which would avoid
> recompile of the REx.
How about m"\G$brackets"o? Is this equivalent? (hope so)
> > Come to think of it, perhaps 'all or nothing' is a better term for the operator
> > - ie, if something fails to match, the engine rewinds all the way back
> > to the beginning, bumps up its position by 1 from the beginning point
> > and then starts again.
>
> Why this cannot be implemented by nested (?>) ?
I would hope that it would be. I'd also assume that this would be a good way
to describe the regex inside of perlre.
> > So matching the above without the \G modifier would look like:
> >
> > tries '{.... (goes to end without success)
> > tries 't' (fails immediately)
> > tries 'h' (fails immediately)
> > tries 'i' (fails immediately)
> > tries 's' (fails immediately)
> > tries '{........ slowly } (succeeds.)
>
> Why do you think it is not doing it like this?
Well, like I said, I'd hope so. All I'm doing is making sure that we are talking
about the same thing. Describing it this way in perlre would be a good idea,
IMO.
Mentioning 'use re 'debugcolor';' would be a good idea as well. 'Tis extremely
useful... Planning an interface with it and emacs? ;-)
Ed