On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Antony Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/03/2008, Xiaozhou Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Vimmers, > > > > During the development of the new regexp, one thing > > confuses me a lot: ordered alternation. (e.g. given r.e. > > 'ab\|abc' and text 'abc', 'ab' matched, not 'abc') > > > > I know that 100% compatibility is one of the project > > goals. So I try to keep this feature in the new regexp. > > But the problem is, ordered alternation is kind of 'side > > effect' of the original back track regexp matcher. > > AFAIK, It is very hard to implement this feature in the > > new, truly NFA matcher, if it is not impossible. We can > > resort to the original regexp when we see '\|', but we > > don't solve the problem perfectly. > > I thought Russ Cox had solved this in the code on his > website, or am I mistaken?
Yes, Russ had solved this :-) Xiaozhou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
