Is this also technically correct, even though it clearly shouldn't match? perl6 -e '"foo" ~~ /(.*)+\:/' # hangs
In either case, going into an infinite loop is not exactly DWIM. > On 20 Sep 2016, at 9:12 PM, Will Coleda via RT <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> > wrote: > > On Tue Sep 20 06:06:59 2016, c...@zoffix.com wrote: >> Here's a much shorter way to reproduce it: >> >> perl6 -e '"foo" ~~ /(.*)+/' # hangs >> >> While my previous explanation for why this occurs makes sense, it's >> worth noting this behaviour is not observed in Perl 5, for example: >> >> perl -e '"foo" =~ /(.*)+/' # does not hang > > This sounds like a dupe of #75586 > > -- > Will "Coke" Coleda
