[SVN] Perl Regex Bug

James Edward Gray II james at grayproductions.net
Sat Feb 10 18:49:40 UTC 2007


On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:59 AM, Michael Sheets wrote:

> Marcus came by irc with a perl grammar bug, it's because of the  
> variables in regular expressions:
>
> http://pastie.textmate.org/39247
>
> I see the issue, but not sure the best way to fix it since I don't  
> know quite how perl determines which is which.

The current Perl interpreter has been hand-tuned for a very long time  
now and has a ridiculous number of special cases in it.  We will  
never get a TextMate grammar anywhere close to its actual parsing  
capabilities.

James Edward Gray II



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