On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:27:04 -0700, sml...@gmail.com wrote: > S05 <http://design.perl6.org/S05.html#line_2234> says: > > Backslash escapes for literal characters in ordinary strings are > allowed in regexes (\a, \x, etc.). However, the exception to this > rule is \b, which is disallowed in order to avoid conflict with > its former use as a word boundary assertion. To match a literal > backspace, use \c8, \x8, or a double-quoted \b. > > I found out the hard way today why that second sentence was specced, > when I puzzled over a regex of mine for several minutes before I > realized that the reason it didn't match, was that I had written my > word boundaries as `\b` (Perl/GNU/.NET regex syntax) instead of `<|w>` > (Perl 6 regex syntax).
Thanks for the report. This is now fixed \o/ Fix commits: https://github.com/perl6/nqp/commit/c5f38888ec https://github.com/perl6/nqp/commit/66308ea63d https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/08589d32fa Tests: https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/846af2a582
