From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-10-27T07:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: regex + regex

> What might be the corresponding * or - behaviors? It seems like
>   a * b
> is closer to
>   /(a)*(b)/


That's what I'd guess for *, as well.

> than anything else I could think of and that immediately implies:
>   a + b
> becomes:
>   /(a)+(b)/
> rather than just /(a)(b)/
> 
> The fact that + is a meaningful character in a Regexp makes a
> universal meaning for it as an operation *on* regexps a bit ambiguous.

Yeah, or what |
means or what not.  I'd probably just stick with concatenation and not 
even *define* *.

-r
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