Todo test based on this message is available in git://github.com/chorny/perl.git repository, branch data-dumper. On Fri Sep 05 09:39:16 2008, tinita wrote: > I get this with perl 5.8.8, and it's also producing the same result in > bleadperl and 5.10. > > > perl -wle' > my $q = q| \/ |; > use Data::Dumper; > my $qr = qr{$q}; > print $qr; > print Dumper $qr; > eval Dumper $qr; > print $@' > (?-xism: \/ ) > $VAR1 = qr/(?-xism: \\/ )/; > > Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/( <-- HERE ?-xism: \\/ > at (eval 1) line 1. -- Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net