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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Number of parens in regexp
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.014256.2062@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 12 Mar 91 01:42:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.163317.22794@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Mar11.163317.22794@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.com writes:
: It's sort of funny that the only arbitrary restriction in Perl is the
: number of parens in a regexp!

I just hacked out that restriction.  Turned out not to be as hard as I
expected.

Larry