# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak"
# Please include the string: [perl #73214]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=73214 >
<masak> rakudo: say '(foo' ~~ / '(' ~ ')' [foo] /
<p6eval> rakudo 5e5969: OUTPUT«Unable to parse _block48, couldn't find
final ')' [...]
<masak> why does everything in regexes indicate falure with a
False-valued $/, except for goals, which indicate failure by throwing
an exception?
<pmichaud> maybe should return failure instead of throwing exception
<masak> yes, please.
<masak> my real-world situation to back this up is a test file with a
grammar parse wrapped in a method call which checks whether the syntax
of an expression is correct. I only expect the method call to return a
Bool, not to blow up.
<pmichaud> I'll have to think a bit about how to pull that off. But
feel free to file this as a ticket :)
<masak> gladly.
* masak submits rakudobug
<pmichaud> well, I can certainly get it to fail the match. I'm not
sure where the message goes, though.
