From: Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov@poboxes.com>
Subject: Re: On refining regexp by adding exceptions systematically
Date: 05 Oct 2002 23:02:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1y74gthx.fsf@poboxes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cjpmna.p51.ln@acm.acm
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:31:24 +0000, Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid> said:
AM> Regular expressions are designed to find string expressions which are,
AM> well, regular.
A minor note: IIRC, `regular' means that the language defined by
the expression can be handled by a finite automaton (a stack is not
needed).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-06 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-03 12:27 On refining regexp by adding exceptions systematically gnuist
2002-10-03 18:38 ` Kaz Kylheku
2002-10-03 23:04 ` Kaz Kylheku
[not found] ` <tvikna.obd.ln@lart.ca>
2002-10-07 14:13 ` Rodney Sparapani
2002-10-05 13:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2002-10-05 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-05 17:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2002-10-06 3:02 ` Vassil Nikolov [this message]
2002-10-06 7:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2002-10-05 19:46 ` Christopher Browne
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