Darren Duncan wrote: > David Green wrote: >> On 2010-08-05, at 8:27 am, Aaron Sherman wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Carl Mäsak <cma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I see this particular thinko a lot, though. Maybe some Perl 6 lint tool >>>> or another will detect when you have a regex containing ^ at its start, $ >>>> at the end, | somewhere in the middle, and no [] to disambiguate. >> >> I think conceptually the beginning and the end of a string feels like a >> bracketing construct (only without symmetrical symbols). At least that seems >> to be my instinct. Well, it doesn't in / ^foo | ^bar | ^qux /, but in >> something like /^ foo|bar $/, the context immediately implies a higher >> precedence for ^ and $. Maybe something like // foo|bar // could work as a >> bracketing version? > > Personally, I had always considered the ^ and $ to be the lowest precedence > things in a pattern.
Meta characters don't have a precedence on their on - concatenation has. Cheers, Moritz
