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On 25 May 2016 at 01:06, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> demerphq wrote:
>>$ perl -wle'qr/\A{10}/'
>>
>>Quantifier unexpected on zero-length expression in regex m/\A{10}/ at -e line 1.
>
> That's just a warning. It does actually parse as I stated.
Yes, no argument there. My point was more that IMO it would not be
particularly unreasonable to forbid certain quantifiers on an
assertion.
IOW, I do consider use of a {min,max} quantifier on an assertion to be
exceptional, and I would not mind if we forbid it when min!=0 or
max!=1.
Yves
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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
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