From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T21:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow regular expressions :(

>>> sender: "Michael W. Ryder" date: "Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:30:11PM +0900" <<<EOQ
> What's wrong with people wanting to improve a language?  
Nothing. In this case however we are not talking about improving,
but about making the regexp engine to be more forgiving, so that
we can be less careful when crafting a regex.
I wouldn't prefer Ruby to think for me, and I very much like when
it says: " - You moron, look what you did: I'm gonna stay stuck on 
this regex for 56783.99 years, and all because of you!! Can you
even wait that long?!?" so that slowly I become less of a moron...
I would definitely not like it to say: " - All is good, feed me crap,
I can take it. I have a good stomach.", and let me go away with it.
But maybe that's just me...

I'm not against evolution, I just see it differently.

Alex