On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:52PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > > (Secondary reason for tests needing 5.6: as you, Schwern, pointed out > > several weeks back, doing without qr// is just too painful!) > > 5.005 introduced qr// > > $ ~/Reference/5.005_04/bin/perl5.00504-32 -le '$r = qr/(p...)/; $^X =~ $r; > print $1' > perl
If you're using it for any serious amount of nesting (ie. building up a regex with a bunch of qr's) it didn't really stabilize until 5.6. I recall this from Email::Find and URI::Find. But for normal use its ok in 5.5. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES! http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml
