Bryan C. Warnock:
# On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:09 pm, Brent Dax wrote:
# > Not exactly.
<my belief in how this works cut>
# > It finds the 'a', then the 'abc', then tries the match.  My mistake.
# > Still, that's a hell of a lot more intelligent than just 'proceeding
# > dumbly left-to-right'.
#
# It shows up better if you throw in some failures first.
#
<his destruction of my belief cut>
#
# And proceeds, dumbly, left to right.

Oh, okay.  I feel stupid now.

So what does that thing at regcomp.c(1853) in bleadperl (probably about
the same place in older versions) do?

--Brent Dax
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