On 25 May 2016 at 01:36, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote: > demerphq wrote: >>Yes, no argument there. My point was more that IMO it would not be >>particularly unreasonable to forbid certain quantifiers on an >>assertion. > > I'd be OK with syntactically forbidding quantifiers on assertions. > It'd really have to be *all* quantifiers; anything selective is more > complexity than it's worth. And it would have to be strictly syntactic, > such that one can get around the restriction by wrapping the assertion in > (?:). Umm. I dont follow that last point... I can understand forbidding quantifiers on an assertion, but not allowing it if its wrapped. Why do you think we need to support that? Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next