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* [9fans] Current sam regular expression engine
@ 2009-09-09  8:36 plus 852
  2009-09-09 16:31 ` Rob Pike
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From: plus 852 @ 2009-09-09  8:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

The sam paper notes that the regular expression code used by sam is an
implementation of Thompson's NFA algorithm. Is this still the case, or
has the engine been replaced with another one?



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* Re: [9fans] Current sam regular expression engine
  2009-09-09  8:36 [9fans] Current sam regular expression engine plus 852
@ 2009-09-09 16:31 ` Rob Pike
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Rob Pike @ 2009-09-09 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

It's still the same.  The regexp library is too.

-rob



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