Author: larry Date: Sat Feb 25 01:58:24 2006 New Revision: 7866 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
Log: Fixed and clarified <(...)> definition. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Sat Feb 25 01:58:24 2006 @@ -639,11 +639,16 @@ is equivalent to: - / <before foo> \d+ <after bar> / + / <after foo> \d+ <before bar> / except that the scan for "foo" can be done in the forward direction, -when a lookbehind assertion would scan for \d+ and then match "foo" -backwards. +while a lookbehind assertion would presumably scan for \d+ and then +match "foo" backwards. The use of C<< <(...)> >> affects only the +meaning of the "result object" and the positions of the beginning and +ending of the match. That is, after the match above, C<$()> contains +only the digits matched, and C<.pos> is pointing to after the digits. +Other captures (named or numbered) are unaffected and may be accessed +through C<$/>. =item *
