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Re: [perl #130497] Revert "Unescaped left brace in regex" fatality

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From:
Kent Fredric
Date:
April 7, 2017 18:21
Subject:
Re: [perl #130497] Revert "Unescaped left brace in regex" fatality
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On 8 April 2017 at 06:07, Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not a bad idea, but we're pretty far in the cycle to test this change
> out, I think.


Yeah, the cleverer the solution, the more time we need to make sure we
didn't introduce additional bugs in the cleverness.

Which in practice means this late, without additional test cycles,
this change would be worse than either choice of "leave it in" or
"take it out".

-- 
Kent

KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

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