From: Mike Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-07-13T23:15:30+09:00
Subject: RE: Dynamic Methods

> Would it be possible to see if a regular expression intersects with another
> regular expression, and if so not add the one that overlaps?

it might be possible, but damned difficult.

It's been too long since my CS days, but something about that makes me think
it's ... not, at least not with any sort of reasonable time.  But I have doubts
of my doubt, too, so...

In any case, what did you need this for?  In 15 years of professional
programming (granted, not all of it OOP), I can't think of a case where I would
have even considered this to be a solution to a problem.  But I haven't seen all
the problems there are yet, so I'm sure I'm missing a few.  =)