Lookahead assertions are a regex feature that makes it possible to look ahead in the input without consuming it. It is often used at the end of regular expressions to make sure that substrings only match when they are followed by a specific pattern.

However, they can also be used in the middle (or at the beginning) of a regex. In that case there is the possibility that what comes after the lookahead does not match the pattern inside the lookahead. This makes the lookahead impossible to match and is a sign that there's a mistake in the regular expression that should be fixed.
