From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T00:39:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternate Regular Expressions?

Phlip wrote:
>     rx = match('foo') or match('bar') # like /(foo|bar)/

Aside: you either need to use '||' instead of 'or', or you need extra 
parentheses, i.e.

   rx = (match('foo') or match('bar'))

otherwise it parses as

  (rx = match('foo')) or match('bar')

I don't really have a problem with regexps as they are. Although I'd 
like to have more limited, *true* regexps, which compile to a DFA and 
never backtrack.
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