"Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel / PATH.Berkeley.EDU> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3EE8F814.5010101 / path.berkeley.edu...
> Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > Apparently, Joel VanderWerf recently wrote:
> >
> >>p /\AQ/ =~ "aQ"    # ==> nil
> >>p /\A=|Q/ =~ "aQ"  # ==> 1
> >
> >
> > \A means beginning of the string (mostly the same as ^, except in
> > multiline mode), and it is lower precidence than |
>
> Ah, thanks. I always expect | to have a higher prec than most other
things.

???  That's exactly what Wesley wrote.  Then I don't understand your
initial question.

    robert