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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:23:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
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>> practical application.  now there are big books on `regular expressions'
>> mainly because they are no longer regular but a big collection of ad-hoc
>
> I thought they were "regular" because they "regularly" occurred in the
> target text. Turns out other interpretations are possible. Though, mine has
> the advantage of being correct :-D

there's a reason they're not called regularly expressions.

(if this were the definition, an expression's regularlyness would
depend on the target text, would it not?)

- erik