Re: Inconsistency with the manual

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2017-10-11 05:27 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2017-10-11 4:51 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> > It's one of:
> >
> > - caret is wrong
> > - frontier is wrong
> > - manual is wrong
> A fourth possibility: behaviour of a bare "^" is undefined.
>
> Lua is replete with silentlly undefined and implementation-dependent
> behaviour. It is impossible for manual writers to anticipate to what
> lengths fractious but resourceful users might go.

I'd still like for %f to match at the start of a match. Is there a good 
reason why it doesn't?

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