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On 9 November 2016 at 10:12, Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> wrote:
> User-defined \p properties, which InFullWidth is, that aren't available at
> compile time are expanded at run time.
I dont get it. If InFullWidth is not loaded, how can people use it?
I would just make that a fatal exception.
> It used to be that all \p were done
> at run time. The problem here likely is that the changes in the blamed
> commit are trying to modify a swash byproduct that has been set read-only.
> I have looked at the code, and don't see how that is happening, which is why
> a stack trace is needed. So, getting that back trace is the best way
> forward.
I don't think the regex engine should call things like this twice. It
should do it once at compile time, and then never call it again. Like,
what happens if InFullWidth returned a different table every time?
Anyway, this is just my opinion, but IMO there is little difference
between \p{} and \N{} in this regard, and we take great care to ensure
\N{} callbacks happen once, and never happen again, even if the
pattern is embedded.
Feel free to point out the flaw in my reasoning.
cheers,
Yves
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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
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