Re: Re: Broken compatibility for recursive regex in Perl 5.8.4

Will the 5.8.4 scope changes fix this bug: Spurious re 'eval'; warning ?

$ perl -Mre=eval -e '/ (??{ "(?{1})" }) $_ /x'
Eval-group not allowed at runtime, use re 'eval' in regex m/(?{1})/ at
+ -e line 1.
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Re: Re: Re: Broken compatibility for recursive regex in Perl 5.8.4 by hv (Prior) on May 25, 2004 at 11:49 UTC
No, for that you'll need to wait for the overhaul of the hints system referred to here. I believe Mark-Jason Dominus is currently working on this. Hugo	[reply]

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