From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T21:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question.

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:51:16AM +0900, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> I know these are syntax errors in C. I was talking about a hypothetical
> language (not C) that defined such constructs as legal. I'm still not sure
> that it's impossible to use a regular language to generate this case:
> /* "*/ */
> I'm pretty convinced that the other case requires a context-free language.
Well for empirical evidence one could look at ML. (* comments (* are *)
nestable *).