From perlre: 
WARNING: Once Perl sees that you need one of $&, $`, or $' anywhere in
+ the program, it has to provide them for every pattern match. This ma
+y substantially slow your program. Perl uses the same mechanism to pr
+oduce $1, $2, etc, so you also pay a price for each pattern that cont
+ains capturing parentheses. (To avoid this cost while retaining the g
+rouping behaviour, use the extended regular expression (?: ... ) inst
+ead.) But if you never use $&, $` or $', then patterns without captur
+ing parentheses will not be penalized. So avoid $&, $', and $` if you
+ can, but if you can't (and some algorithms really appreciate them), 
+once you've used them once, use them at will, because you've already 
+paid the price.

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I don't see why they had to make it set them on *every* regex match just because one uses them. Why couldn't they just add a new modifier (like /i, /x, /g, etc), and only set them if the modifier is used?

--MrNobo1024
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In reply to Why can't $` $& $' be enabled on a per-regex basis? by MrNobo1024

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