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Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> I've played a bit with this (patch below). But I thing I am a bit
> puzzled. With my patch, `(rx (not top))' translates to:
>
> "\\(?:[^t]*\\|t[^o]*\\|to[^p]*\\)"
>
> Is this actually correct?

Well, err, it depends.

I guess one meaningful meaning of the hypothetical x\\(!:top\\)y would
be to look whether the characters following x are t-o-p.  If so, then
fail.  If not, then do like xy would have done.

That's what Perl does, I believe.
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