From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T00:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression mismatch ?

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:38:17 +0900, Han Holl wrote:

> On Apr 7, 2005 3:09 PM, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Not if you use Ruby more and more :-)
>> 
> This problem occurred while porting nasty old Perl program
> to shiny new Ruby. I used to rely on ruby's re to be Perl
> compatible.

And I'm sure people who have relied on Perl REs being compatible with its
predecessors have been bitten by problems, too.

Regular expressions never really have been regular enough to make that
assumption, though.

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