On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:55:26AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
> Decent languages, like Perl, will probably implement their own
> compilers. This will allow them to support special syntaxes (think
> (?{}) and the like) and optimize the hell out of things.
I'm cool with that. Then don't worry too much about speed in the
default regexp ops. I don't think we're trying to compete with Perl's
regexps, especially given the potential readability cost. :)
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