Front page | perl.perl6.language.regex |
Postings from December 2000
Deven T. Corzine writes: > I haven't even SEEN an example where the current behavior is actually > preferable than my proposed behavior, have you? (And I'd expect at least a > FEW, though I suspect there are probably more counterexamples.) I think the biggest problem with your idea is that it requires the engine to keep looking even after it finds a match, to see if there's another shorter match. This would make *every* match much much slower, potentially heatdeathoftheuniverse slower. I like the current semantics because it's very easy to visualize the engine acting on your instructions and stopping as soon as it finds a match. I am a programmer, and I prefer programs to descriptions. NatThread Previous | Thread Next