Note, in case you don't read synopsis checkins: the previous checkin
majorly changes the semantics of | within regex to support required
longest-token matching semantics rather than left-to-right matching.
This is nearly on the same philosophical level as requiring the
tail-recursion optimization.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:41:03AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
Note, in case you don't read synopsis checkins: the previous checkin
majorly changes the semantics of | within regex to support required
longest-token matching semantics rather than left-to-right matching.
This is nearly on the same
