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Re: On refining regexp by adding exceptions systematically


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: On refining regexp by adding exceptions systematically
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:48:43 +0000
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Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov@poboxes.com> wrote on 05 Oct 2002 23:02:02
-0400:
>     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).

Hmmm.  I was sort of dimly aware of that when I wrote the above.  What's
really needed is word meaning "devoid of grotesquely shaped sticky-out
bits" but which isn't "regular".

> ---Vassil.

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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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