--On Friday, February 20, 2015 7:50 PM +0100 Mark Martinec
<[email protected]> 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.
The widest possible support does generally seem desirable, especially since
the existing rules can be rewritten to handle older perl versions.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Zimbra, Inc.
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