On 2/21/2015 12:22 PM, Mark Martinec wrote:
In the just released perl 5.21.9 there are some nice features:
Looks like we won't be able to use these for the next twenty years 8-}
I laughed...
As the possessive quantifier is
just a shorthand for the independent subexpression (?pattern), which
was introduced with 5.8, wouldn't it be just easier to rewrite these
few rules and avoid the possessive quantifier, along with all their
conditionals.
The widest possible support does generally
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Mark Martinec wrote:
As the possessive quantifier is just a shorthand for the independent
subexpression (?pattern), which was introduced with 5.8, wouldn't it be
just easier to rewrite these few rules and avoid the possessive
quantifier, along with all their conditionals.
Back in November 2014 there was a thread:
sa-update lint fail on __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS
which resulted in the introduction of a can(perl_min_version_...)
directive:
[Bug 7107] RFE: if() preprocessor directive should support a test for
perl version
I don't mind having the possibility to test
--On Friday, February 20, 2015 7:50 PM +0100 Mark Martinec
mark.martinec...@ijs.si wrote:
As the possessive quantifier is
just a shorthand for the independent subexpression (?pattern), which
was introduced with 5.8, wouldn't it be just easier to rewrite these
few rules and avoid the possessive
On 2/20/2015 1:50 PM, Mark Martinec wrote:
Back in November 2014 there was a thread:
sa-update lint fail on __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS
which resulted in the introduction of a can(perl_min_version_...)
directive:
[Bug 7107] RFE: if() preprocessor directive should support a test
for perl version
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
On 2/20/2015 1:50 PM, Mark Martinec wrote:
As the possessive quantifier is just a shorthand for the independent
subexpression (?pattern), which was introduced with 5.8, wouldn't it
be just easier to rewrite these few rules and avoid the
