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perlre clean-up
authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:58:03 +0000 (12:58 -0800)
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:58:58 +0000 (12:58 -0800)
commit0b928c2f2427ad8eb633f553929143e5010eba1f
tree3c1cc099abaad0b1debb9575e076fb3c639c4a83
parent7b5a08e99644a51f13ce3555c781b9664368a4af
perlre clean-up

Mostly typos, grammatical errors and factual errors (mostly due to
bitrot), but also:

• The section explaining how to work around the lack of look behind
  obviously has not been relevant for years. :-)
• Since we have relative backreferences, we might as well use them in
  the explanation of the (?>...) construct.
• Note that it’s possible to backtrack *past* (?>...), but
  not into it.
• (?:non-zero-length|zero-length)* is *not* equivalent to nzl*|zl? as
 "aaaaab" =~ /(?:a|(?{print "hello"})(?=(b)))*/ demonstrates.
• The custom re engine section doesn’t mention custom re engines. :-)
pod/perlre.pod