[ProgSoc] The magic of regex

Nathan de Vries nathan at atnan.com
Tue Nov 24 13:25:05 EST 2009


On 24/11/2009, at 12:28 PM, Roland Turner wrote:
> Apropos the earlier thread on regex, this expression contains a
> back-reference and is therefore not actually regular.

If anyone's interested in non-regular regular expressions (a.k.a.  
pattern matching), Larry Wall's Apocalypse [1] on the future of  
regular expressions in Perl is rather interesting.


Cheers,

Nathan de Vries

[1] http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A05.html



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