From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-04-17T07:33:01+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions

Oops.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com>

  #  /a*b/
  'a'*(0..) + 'b'
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I didn't realize you can't do one-sided ranges in Ruby.  (I never seem to
use ranges for some reason.)  We could just define some constant for the
star:

  RE_STAR
  KLEENE
  ANY
  N  #  My favorite


Too bad about `0..', though...

One thing at a time,

:)

Chris