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Stringification round-trip not guaranteed (Score:1)

by tsee (4409) <reversethis-{gro.napc} {ta} {relleums}> on 2009.12.17 5:48 (#71409) Homepage Journal

The round-trip of $x=qr/.../ => "$x" => qr/$x/ is not guaranteed to produce EXACTLY THE SAME regular expression. It would be baffling if it produced a regexp that behaved differently, but that's still something to keep in mind.

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