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. Sorry I'm ND but write from another mailbox. I guess from Perl point of view (*THEN) IS inside a branch of the alternation (please look at line indentations in Perl debug output - it is inside BRANCH). So it should not act as (*PRUNE) in that example. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
