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This is the description from his book so I would say he clarified the issue, not corrected–

The true mathematical and computational meaning of “NFA” is different from what is commonly called an “NFA regex engine.” In theory, NFA and DFA engines should match exactly the same text and have exactly the same features. In practice, the desire for richer, more expressive regular expressions has caused their semantics to diverge.
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