I have always wanted a warning if a literal character 
occurs in a regex twice.  That would have caught this error.

Any chance of seeing this in e.g. perl 6. 

How would I go about proposing it?


Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ranga Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] Posix constructs in regex...
> 
> 
> Thanks for that... I see that now!. The posix notation is positively
> confusing... The [ and ] have been hijacked :-)!
> 
> 
> |[^:alpha:] => any character that is not ':','a','l','p','h'.
> |
> |It worked for the wrong reason.
> |
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