> James Mastros wrote:
> > [/f for fast DFA regexen]
Jeremy Howard wrote:
> The choice of algorithms is a great idea, but why do we need a modifier?
> Isn't it a pretty straightforward set of rules that allow us to decide if a
> DFA matcher will work? It would be a lot nicer if Perl could just notice
> that the regex could be handled by its DFA matcher, all by itself.
That would be nice, too, but a modifier would let you ensure that the
DFA matcher was being used. You wouldn't have to guess whether a
particular construct was DFA-able or not.
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