This is in conflict with the documentation at https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes which states
<alpha>Alphabetic characters including _ And <alnum>\w. <alpha> plus <digit> In my example. '_' matches the alpha regex. As per specifications, Everything that matches alpha should match alnum. Which in the given example does not.On Sep 28, 2018 8:22 AM, Brandon Allbery via RT <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > > "_" is not an alphabetic character. It's allowed in "alnum" because that is > by intent what is \w in other regex implementations, which includes "_". > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:47 PM Vijayvithal <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> > wrote: > > > # New Ticket Created by Vijayvithal > > # Please include the string: [perl #133541] > > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133541 > > > > > > > In the attached code, the only difference between the Grammars G0 and G1 > > is the defination of token 'type' it is defined as <alpha> in one case > > and as <alnum> in another. > > > > Since the string being matched is 'sc_in' both the alpha and alnum > > tokens should have captured it. But we see the following result on > > execution > > > > =========== <alnum> Example============== > > Nil > > =========== <alpha> Example============== > > ｢sc_in<foo> bar｣ > > ruport => ｢sc_in｣ > > type => ｢sc_in｣ > > alpha => ｢s｣ > > alpha => ｢c｣ > > alpha => ｢_｣ > > alpha => ｢i｣ > > alpha => ｢n｣ > > > > > > Perl Version is > > > > This is Rakudo Star version 2018.06 built on MoarVM version 2018.06 > > implementing Perl 6.c. > > > > > > > > -- > > Vijayvithal > > Dyumnin Semiconductors > > > > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh > allber...@gmail.com >
