Re: [perl #75762] Perl failed and print panic message to STDERR

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:09:04AM -0700, Alex Varyanick wrote:
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> This is a bug report for perl from [email protected],
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.10.1.
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> This code:
> perl -e'/(?:(o){2})?/'
> Prints "Panic opt close in regex m/(?:(o){2})?/" to STDERR

Still present in 5.12.1 and blead.

> 
> This code:
> perl -e'grep$$(%!)'
> Prints: "panic: ck_grep" to STDERR


The latter seems to be fixed in 5.12.1:

   $ perl -e'grep$$(%!)'
   Missing comma after first argument to grep function at -e line 1, at EOF
   Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
   $


Abigail