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doc/Language/regexes.pod says:
# The C<^^> assertion matches at the start of a logical line. That is, either
# at the start of the string, or after a newline character.
Actual behaviour:
> /\n^^/.ACCEPTS("\na").Bool
True
> /\n^^/.ACCEPTS("\n").Bool
False
/^^/ doesn't match after a newline character if that's at the end
of the string. This mismatch appears to be a documentation bug: the
behaviour of /^^/ is consistent with that of /$$/, which is consistent
with its documentation. The description of /^^/ needs to adopt the
"when the last character is not a newline character" qualifier from the
description of /$$/.
-zefram
