| To: | Tom Lord <yyyy@xxxxxxx> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: RE-ASSOC: a question about the associativity of RE concatenation |
| From: | "Stefan Monnier" <yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:29:03 -0400 |
| Cc: | yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxx, yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyy@xxxxxxx, yyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx, yyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| References: | <UTC200204070221.CAA544179.aeb@cwi.nl> <200204070328.TAA22897@morrowfield.home> |
> It's interesting to note that, for example, BSD has gotten by for
> years with an implementation that does not even reliably find the
> longest possible match. I think user's of libc regexps are,
> traditionally, quite undemanding.
Complete agreement.
I've fixed some incredible bugs in Emacs' regex code for Emacs-21
and those bugs were present in most other GNU code (which shared
the same implementation) including glibc-2.1.
Stefan
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