Regular expression pipe confusion

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The first pattern without the parenthesis is equivalent to /(^a)|(b$)/.
The reason is, that the pipe operator (“alternation operator”) has the lowest precedence of all regex operators: http://www.regular-expressions.info/alternation.html (Third paragraph below the first heading)

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