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On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:44:09AM -0500, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> [2011-12-06T15:41:29]
> > { my $x = 1; $r = qr/(??{$x})/ }
> > my $x = 2;
> > print "ok\n" if "1" =~ /^$r$/;
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
> I've been watching the (??{...}) work with interest. It's been marked
> experimental for ages, in part (I have assumed) because of its general
> twitchiness. I've been wondering whether it will soon-ish be ready to be a
> stable, non-experimental feature.
Well, if this code gets into 5.16, it should still be marked as
experimental then, because I'm bound to have introduced lots of new bugs.
But hopefully these will be small easy to fix bugs, rather than the
current 'designed totally wrong from the outset' mess. So if there aren't
any problems, maybe mark as stable in 5.18?
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