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On 5 February 2012 11:56, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > > Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote > on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:54:37 EST: > >> You removed "g" and "c", but they are accepted in patterns: > >>>perl -wcE"qr/(?c:foo)/;" >>Useless (?c) - use /gc modifier in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?c <-- >>HERE :foo)/ at -e line 1. >>-e syntax OK > >>>perl -wcE"qr/(?g:foo)/;" >>Useless (?g) - use /g modifier in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?g <-- >>HERE :foo)/ at -e line 1. >>-e syntax OK > >>I don't know why that is. > > I removed them because they are non-sensical, and I consider it a bug > that they are accepted but whined about as pattern operators. Why? You think throwing a fatal is preferred? They do nothing, they have no affect. >>If anything is misleading is that they are listed as pattern modifiers >>(which are listed in perlre) instead of operator modifiers (which are >>listed in perlop). > > Something else that's misleading is having to look in two different > places for those things. Yes agreed. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next