On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 09:35:25PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > As far as I know, we have 3 regex definitions in base: GNU grep, NetBSD > sed (with regex(3), defined by re_format(7)), and NetBSD awk. It would > be an improvement IMO to use one implementation for all utilities in > base, to make them internally consistent and dependable (and > reproducible), even at the expense of compatibilitly with GNU's > implementations.
Too bad awk is a language with its own definition... why not fix Perl to use standard regexps while you're at it? -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
