[ID 19991109.004] Stringification doesn't seem to apply to regexp arguments

Another...

David Huggins-Daines writes:
> [dhd@willow]~ $ perl -le '$f=[1]; print $f; while ($f =~ /(\w+)/g) {print $1}'
> ARRAY(0x80cb97c)
> xl@x
> @80cb97c
> 
> It's evidently failing to stringify the scalar.

Evidently, not, as omiting //g shows.  Something is fishy with pos()
on a reference.  Is it wise to just plain prohibit it?

Ilya

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