Hello, fellow monks,

when I was offering a script to the Gods of Perl recently, they turned me down and spoke "panic: top_env".

Seeking enlightenment, I consulted with The Camel to find out what the Gods had meant, and it told me the following: "The compiler attempted to do a goto, or something weird like that." Being just a humble acolyte, I did not understand, but The Camel would speak no more.

I turned back to my script and took a look, and surely enough it was flawed; there was a typo in there that had taken a (?<=) positive look-behind assertion and turned into (?<), a meaningless abomination. In the spirit of INTERCAL, I corrected and resubmitted, and the Gods were happy; but still, I cannot figure out what wisdom lies within their words and those of The Camel, so I turn to you, fellow monks, seeking enlightenment.

--
mowgli

edited: Tue Jan 21 15:32:04 2003 by jeffa - title change (was: "something weird")

In reply to Unexpected 'panic: top_env' in regex match by mowgli

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