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Re: RE-ASSOC: a question about the associativity of RE concatenation

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
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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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