Re^4: curious regex result for perl 5.8.8

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Re^5: curious regex result for perl 5.8.8 by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 22, 2016 at 04:13 UTC
You misunderstand. Backward compatibility is important. The behavior in the context of prior art is correct and consistent. The behavior in the context of naive expected outcome following a failed match is bogus. The Apple/Python/PHP/Perl 6/... attitude of "onward and bugger legacy code" is anathema (although I understand where it comes from). This is not that! Premature optimization is the root of all job security	[reply]

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Re^5: curious regex result for perl 5.8.8
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 22, 2016 at 04:13 UTC

You misunderstand. Backward compatibility is important. The behavior in the context of prior art is correct and consistent. The behavior in the context of naive expected outcome following a failed match is bogus.

The Apple/Python/PHP/Perl 6/... attitude of "onward and bugger legacy code" is anathema (although I understand where it comes from). This is not that!

Premature optimization is the root of all job security

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