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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
March 26, 2013 09:30
Subject:
Re: Is this a /^*/ bug?
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CALJW-qFijnTw3udAUDWVOaaqMUAdkD4KpK4knTRY48kZt7UmVw@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:14 PM, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:

> Should zero-width assertions in general be quantifiable at all? What
> would be the fallout of making that a compile-time error? If too bad,
> what of optimising them away with a specially worded warning?
>

/...(?=.*(foo))?.../ might make sense, but could be automatically rewritten
as /...(?=(?:.*(foo))?).../

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