On Tue, 10 May 2005 04:58:48 -0700, alex goldman wrote:
> Sean Burke wrote:
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>> No, you're just confused about the optimization metric.
>> In regexes, "greedy" match optimizes for the longest match,
>> not the fastest.
>>
>> And this is common regex terminology - man perlre and you will
>> f
On Tue, 10 May 2005 06:52:18 -0700, alex goldman wrote:
> Lawrence Kirby wrote:
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>> However the original quote was in the context of regular expressions, so
>> discussion of the terminology used in regular expressions is far more
>> relevant than the terminology use
