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Re^2: Program enters infinite loop, can you see why?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 07, 2010 at 04:11 UTC

    By that logic, this should also hang, but it doesn't:

    C:\test>perl -wE"1 while 'vwx' =~ m[vwx]g;"

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Re^2: Program enters infinite loop, can you see why?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 07, 2010 at 04:11 UTC