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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
June 27, 2013 16:33
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.18 and Regexp::Grammars
Message ID:
20130627163258.GI2128@iabyn.com
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:24:49PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> I hope it turns out that there is a way to repair R::G for 5.18.0.  I've sent
> Damian an email about this yesterday, and I'm copying him on this one.
> Hopefully we can begin a dialog about the specific problems and how they might
> be addressed.


Well, if Damian can point out specific behavioural deficiencies in
code blocks and qr constant overloading, I'm happy to attempt to address
them.

Note however that R::G, as was implemented, specifically relied on a bug in
the old perl implementation that allowed code blocks contained in strings
(rather than in regexes) to be interpolated into regexes and be executed,
without requiring a 'use re eval' in scope.


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