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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:36 AM, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>wrote: > I did an analysis of this, and it turns out that the only ambiguous case is > 's/foo/bar/le'. > $ perl -c -e'/foo/le 1' -e syntax OK $ perl -c -e'/foo/lt 1' -e syntax OK $ perl -c -e's/foo/bar/le 1' -e syntax OK $ perl -c -e's/foo/bar/lt 1' -e syntax OK That's 4 for "/l" alone, not counting the various permutations of modifiers that you could place before the "l". On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:36 AM, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>wrote: > Why can't we just say in the pods and warning message that '/le' must be > written as '/el' in 5.14? > Because it doesn't help. $ perl -c -e's/foo/bar/ele 1' -e syntax OKThread Previous | Thread Next