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On 01/01/2018 03:26 AM, Tom Molesworth wrote:
> On 1 January 2018 at 04:31, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am proposing two deprecations
>>
>> First, using literal vertical space, such as a form feed or new line, in a regular expression pattern unless that pattern is /x. My guess is that this is extremely uncommon, and that just about all such occurrences would be from forgetting the /x. So deprecating this should affect hardly anyone. The reason I believe it is uncommon is that when displayed the pattern would look something like this:
>
>
> Just to be clear, this would affect cases like this?
>
> my ($name, $description) = m{
> =head1 NAME
>
> (\S+) - (.*)
>
> =};
>
> If so, that seems very inconvenient. I've seen (and used) literal \n
> in non-/x regex quite often.
The above sinks the proposal. Thank you for responding.
>
> Are there benefits aside from the "maybe you wanted /x" warning?
>
It's a prerequisite for the /xx work.
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