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in thread YAML::XS perl/regexp (?u:(?u:

i think shmem was talking about regexp_pattern only available since perl 5.10, while YAML and YAML::XS aim to spport 5.8. I wonder how your suggeestion addresses that. Can you elaborate or did you mean something else?

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Re^5: YAML::XS perl/regexp (?u:(?u:
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 19, 2017 at 19:32 UTC

    One can always fall back to the current method in older versions of Perl if the guts of the aforementioned sub can't be backported.