Ok, that clarifies things. Now that I understand what is happening, it is
straightforward to recognise and fix the problem. A sentence in the
documentation might help other perl 5 transitioners from getting bitten,
perhaps at the explanation of the * quantifier.
> On 21 Sep 2016, at 6:35 PM
Is this also technically correct, even though it clearly shouldn't match?
perl6 -e '"foo" ~~ /(.*)+\:/' # hangs
In either case, going into an infinite loop is not exactly DWIM.
> On 20 Sep 2016, at 9:12 PM, Will Coleda via RT
> wrote:
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> On Tue Sep 20 06:06:59 2016, c...@zoffix.com wrote:
