From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T04:34:54+09:00
Subject: Re: gnu-regexp should raise?

* Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> [Nov, 26 2003 20:10]:
> Why does /[]]/ not raise an exception, when /[]/ does ?
well, it is standard to allow having ] as the first character in a []
character class definition, as the empty character class is usually
illegal.  it is, however, not very obvious and so Ruby complains (with a
warning) if it sees one.  I'd say that you should go the Perl6 way and
remove character classes defined in this way from you regex library.
That's what I'm going to do.
	nikolai

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