Re^4: Interesting behavior of regular expression engine

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So, Larry at least thinks the steps are well defined.

I don't know what you're talking about, but that book is 12 years old at least, and larry himself hasn't touched the regex engine in about as long , optimizations have been added, things have changed

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Re^5: Interesting behavior of regular expression engine by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2013 at 08:13 UTC
Ok, I've read the rules in 5.9.4. The Little Engine That /Could(n't)?/ and they are prefaced with for this discussion we're pretending the optimizer doesn't exist. , pretty much what we've been saying	[reply]

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