I'm doing some JS work with a big set of regular expressions, a sizable chunk of which depend on the /s ("single-line") flag for Regexps, which JS doesn't currently support. The perlre manpage from Perl 5.6.1 has the following to say about /m, /s, and how they interact: m Treat string as multiple lines. That is, change "^" and "$" from matching the start or end of the string to matching the start or end of any line anywhere within the string. s Treat string as single line. That is, change "." to match any character whatsoever, even a newline, which normally it would not match. The "/s" and "/m" modifiers both override the "$*" setting. That is, no matter what "$*" contains, "/s" without "/m" will force "^" to match only at the beginning of the string and "$" to match only at the end (or just before a newline at the end) of the string. Together, as /ms, they let the "." match any character whatsoever, while still allowing "^" and "$" to match, respectively, just after and just before newlines within the string. Waldemar: so it looks like I was wrong, and this does effect ^ and $. Would you still consider a patch for this?

Pure RFE, probably not worth keeping around given how ECMA-262 is going. Maybe not relevant in light of perl6? /be

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Closing--JS language extensions belong to TC39, not us.