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The PR Dual-Life/experimental#22 adds that link which is the equivalent to https://perldoc.perl.org/perlrecharclass#Extended-Bracketed-Character-Classes |
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Fixes Perl#23232 "Extended Bracketed Ccharacter Classes" is the formal name documented; but "regex_sets" is what you specify to 'feature' to enable/disable it. Add a bit of text so that if you know one name, you can find the other.
I think Jim is right; and we need something in core to cross reference the two terms. #23270 adds just a bit of text, so that his failed search that led to this ticket would now succeed |
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Fixes Perl#23232 "Extended Bracketed Character Classes" is the formal name documented; but "regex_sets" is what you specify to 'feature' to enable/disable it. Add a bit of text so that if you know one name, you can find the other.
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The
regex_sets
feature is mentioned inexperimental
but, as far as I can find, nowhere documented.That was with perl 5.38.2, but I searched for 'regex_sets' in perlre, perlrebackslash, perlrecharclass, and perlreref at https://perldoc.perl.org/5.40.2/perl#Reference-Manual
If the feature is documented anywhere, please add a reference to that place in the pod for
experimental
(e.g. "See ...") and mention the soon-to-be-no-longer-requireduse experimental "regex_sets";
at the place so that tag can be used to find it.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: