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On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:16:37PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:22 PM, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > > This is another go round in what to do about this. I hope this isn't too > > long. I give extensive background, and then a place to vote your preference > > at the end. > > it's a very clear summary of the situation. Thank you. > > > The problem is what those modifiers should be. Perl currently allows a > > keyword to come right after a regex, like '/abc/lt 1' Code is being added > > in 5.14 to deprecate that, but we are stuck with that until at least 5.16. > > I would suggest we reconsider whether this is really a "deprecation" > situation. Is there any documentation that states that such > constructs are legal? I was surprised to find that they are. I would > have expected it to be a syntax error. If we instead "fix the bug" > that invalid regex flags are not detected as a syntax error, then we > don't have to consider this a deprecated feature and we don't have to > wait two years for a sane approach. That may lead us to favor > different options. "Not documented" isn't really a great metric for "is fine to break without notice" unless we turn it on with the 5.14 pragma.Thread Previous | Thread Next