[perl #116639] regex optimiser wrongly rejects certain matches involving embedded comments

On Thu Feb 07 22:11:16 2013, demerphq wrote:
> On 7 February 2013 00:58, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>
wrote:
> > * demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> [2013-02-06T03:54:55]
> >> On 6 February 2013 08:44,  <hv@crypt.org> wrote:
> >> > Allowing it with a warning only makes sense to me if we want to
be able
> >> > to define the effect in terms of something else, like '(?#comment) is
> >> > the same as (?=(?:|comment))'; but it isn't, and we don't. :)
> >>
> >> Thanks for the analysis, I agree. If I can figure it out at all I will
> >> make it die instead of warn.
> >
> > Agreed, too, thanks Hugo.
> 
> A patch to implement this has been pushed as:
> smoke-me/regex_comment_quantifier_fix

Did this change smoke cleanly for you?

I don't see anything at

http://perl.develop-help.com/?b=smoke-me%2Fregex_comment_quantifier_fix

that looks like it was caused by this patch.

This branch no longer rebases cleanly on blead.

Tony

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• [perl #116639] regex optimiser wrongly rejects certain matches involving embedded comments by Tony Cook via RT
• Re: [perl #116639] regex optimiser wrongly rejects certain matchesinvolving embedded comments by demerphq