On Friday 13 June 2003 4:32 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> "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.

I said lower precedence, but I really meant *higher*. (I was thinking 
backwards as I typed that out, probably ;) 

The key, I think, was that that the expression was being evaluated 
relation to | differently than the OP was expecting. =)

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