Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
By this change, each fragment is divided into
groups by whether the fragment includes back reference in a pattern or
not. a frgment which includes back reference constitutes group, and all
frgments which include back reference also constitute a group.

Surely this is not sufficient. An invocation of grep like this:

grep -E '(a
b)'

should be an error, but with the proposed patch won't it be equivalent to "grep -E '(a|b)'" since the pattern has no back-references?



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