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.
I will take a look at where I've had to use a 5.10 possessive quantifier to avoid runaway backtracking. If it does work then I will use it in place of the possessive quantifier shorthand.
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