On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Zoltán Herczeg wrote: > If you are right about the internal working of (*THEN), then this verb > has a very unclear and inconsistent behavior, which is very hard to > track for a user.
And it totally contradicts the Perl documentation, in particular, this sentence: Note that if this operator is used and NOT inside of an alternation then it acts exactly like the "(*PRUNE)" operator. But it doesn't. Let's see what the Perl maintainers' reaction to my bug report is. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
