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We had a go around in 5.16 about fixing bugs in new features, but I
don't know that any rules were established.
By definition a new feature has no regressions from past releases, but
if we don't fix bugs found in it, there is a perverse incentive for our
customers to not try it, at the very time we are most seeking real world
data.
Father Chrysostomos has found and fixed several bugs in this feature
(thank you very much). I'm wondering if any of these should go into 5.18.1:
· Various memory leaks involving the parsing of the "(?[...])"
regular expression construct have been fixed.
· "(?[...])" now allows interpolation of precompiled patterns
consisting of (?[...])> with bracket character classes inside
("$pat = qr/(?[ [a] ])/; /(?[ $pat ])/"). Formerly, the brackets
would confuse the regular expression parser.
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