On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Luke Palmer wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
>
> > Damian Conway:
> > # Neither. You need:
> > #
> > #          $roundor7 = rx /<<roundascii>+[17]>/
> > #
> > # That is: the union of the two character classes.
> >
> > How can you be sure that <roundascii> is implemented as a character
> > class, as opposed to (say) an alternation?
>
> What's the difference? :)
>
> Neglecting internals, semantically what I<is> the difference?

None, I think.  Of course, if we ignore internals, there's no difference
bewteen that and "rx /<roundascii> | 1 | 7/".

/s

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