In <199911051821.KAA05652@activestate.com>, Gurusamy Sarathy writes: [ $1 is not restored ] :Known bug. See: : http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-11/msg00648.html : :Ilya, this is a _serious_ bug in regular expressions, and I'm sad to :see that it hasn't been fixed in more than a year. I have half a :mind to be cruel and "motivate" fixing it by not accepting any RE :patches until this is fixed. :-} I still hope to make the regexp engine reentrant at some point, but my tuits still have very sharp corners. I believe that work would subsume any fix for this problem. December may offer a better opportunity, subject to a trip I'll be making, but there is a danger that a month may not be enough. HugoThread Previous | Thread Next