A5 says this:
> I'm accepting the basic premise of this RFC that the ?...? construct is
> going away, one way or another.
and perlop (from 5.6.1) says this:
> ?PATTERN?
> ...
> This usage is vaguely deprecated, which means it just might possibly
> be removed in some distant future version of Perl, perhaps somewhere
> around the year 2168.
That's a long time for implementation :-)
Well, this is really only a problem for p52p6, I suppose.
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