On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
> 
> I wondered that too.  I figured it was because \B wouldn't match 
> twice at the same place, but then I saw that s/\B./$&$&/g didn't work 
> as expected either.
> 

I fell foul of this too. It's maybe worth pointing out that m/\B./g doesn't
have the expected effect either:

% perl -le'print "abcdefgh"=~/\B./g'
bdfh

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