On 2011-05-02 10:43, Philip Hazel wrote:

It really doesn't seem sensible to put effort into supporting something as
useless as this.




Why when user ports to PCRE a successfull Perl pattern like
(?=a(b))?.*d\1? (it's simplifyed version of real pattern used by my application)
he need to look for difficulties to reconstruct it?
What principial considerations causes PCRE to notify such legal Perl pattern as erroneous
and disable it's use?

Thanx.

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