At 4:52 PM -0700 6/5/02, David Whipp wrote:
>As always, most of it is great. so only the niggles get discussed.
>
>On page 7, the following example is given:
>
> $oldpos = pos $string;
> $string =~ m/... <( .pos == $oldpos )> .../;
>
>This implies that match position is associated with the string. This worries
>me. If 2 threads are matching on the same string (intuitively safe, because
>matching is a read-only operation) then both threads may both attempt to set
>..pos. This would be unfortunate.
pos is an iterator, and we ought to treat it like iterators on hashes
and arrays, i.e. a separate entity from what's being iterated on.
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