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<colomon> moritz: so, I've got regex accidental { '^' | '^^' | '_' |
'__' | '=' }, and the debugger shows it's matching '^' and not going
on to match '^^'. What should I be doing to solve that?
<Timbus> put your longer tokens first?
<Timbus> i was just recalling ltm used to not work, but that was way ages ago
<colomon> wait, it's *longest* -- shouldn't it automatically work, then?
<Timbus> i assumed from what you said, it was still not working
<colomon> and reordering does indeed fix the problem in nom. based on
my reading of the spec, this is clearly a nom bug. (And I think one
that b got correct, even though it didn't have working LTM as far as I
know.)
<Timbus> odd
<masak> nom: '^^^^' ~~ / ('^' | '^^')+ /; say $0.elems
<p6eval> nom 4269d7: OUTPUT«4»
* masak submits rakudobug
<masak> niecza: '^^^^' ~~ / ('^' | '^^')+ /; say $0.elems
<p6eval> niecza v12: OUTPUT«2»
<masak> niecza: '^^^^' ~~ / '^' | '^^' /; say $/.chars
<p6eval> niecza v12: OUTPUT«2»
<masak> nom: '^^^^' ~~ / '^' | '^^' /; say $/.chars
<p6eval> nom 4269d7: OUTPUT«1»
<moritz> colomon: LTM is simply not working well enough
