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On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:50, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > As far as I can tell, the stringified form of a regexp is only useful > for debugging purposes, to dump the inner contents of a regexp. > And that's exactly what it does, since perl has internally added an \n > (as someone pointed out on the perlmonks thread.) Thus I don't see > the interest for your patch ? If the stringified form is only useful for debugging, than that should be documented somewhere -- and it should stop looking and acting so much like a real regex. 'Cuz I've been blissfully ignorant up till now. ;> As I think the existence of the thread implies, it's misleading to people. Sure, I pointed out that it was cosmetic, but how many people didn't? If it's a simple fix that reduces confusion at little or no cost, why not make it? I'm not impossibly attached to this patch, though, and could be convinced to give it up. I'm just confused by your logic, mostly. - Alex -- Networking -- only one letter away from not working.Thread Previous