Nicholas Clark wrote: > In October 2000 I believed that 5.005 maintenance *is* important for the > acceptance of perl6, and I still do now:
Some minutes ago I sent a first patch to Sean, to make it work on 5.005_03. One reason of failure is shown by the following snippet: $ cat t1 #!/usr/bin/perl -wl use strict; my $r = qr( [-+] )ox; my $t = '+1'; print $t =~ / \A(?-imxs:$r) /ox ? "yes" : "no"; print $t =~ / \A(?-ims:$r) /ox ? "yes" : "no"; $ perl t1 no yes The output is yes/yes on 5.6.1. (Code similar to the above matching is generated in Perlgrammar.pm, but there should be a workaround by giving up some readability) leo
