I started to write: Is there a reason for introducing an asymmetry, or should this proposal read "... and /^/ equivalent to /\A/ ..."? but then I re-re-read perlre(1) and realized that that is the current behavior already: this proposal is hammering out a little bit of irregularity, removing a subtle difference between the behavior of $ at the end and ^ at the beginning under /s. I offer this as another argument in favour of RFC 332. -Bennett
- RFC 332 (v1) Regex: Make /$/ equivalent to /\z/ under ... Perl6 RFC Librarian