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and YAML::XS should make use of XS(XS_re_regexp_pattern) in universal.c

And how does one do that? XS(XS_re_regexp_pattern) creates the Perl sub re::regexp_pattern, so that's a very weird way of saying that YAML::XS should call Perl sub re::regexp_pattern.

Inevitably, this raises backcompat issues.

This can be addressed by storing them as a different type than perl/regexp (perl/regexp_plus_mods?).

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Re^4: YAML::XS perl/regexp (?u:(?u:
by tinita (Parson) on Dec 08, 2017 at 15:48 UTC
    i think shmem was talking about regexp_pattern only available since perl 5.10, while YAML and YAML::XS aim to spport 5.8. I wonder how your suggeestion addresses that. Can you elaborate or did you mean something else?
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      One can always fall back to the current method in older versions of Perl if the guts of the aforementioned sub can't be backported.

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