Re^2: [OT] Thoughts on Ruby's new absent operator?

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The C-style comments pattern isn't really a practical example. They can be matched more easily as qr{/\*.*?\*/}, but the problem is stated in an unnatural way to exclude that.

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Re^3: [OT] Thoughts on Ruby's new absent operator? by perlancar (Hermit) on Mar 25, 2017 at 02:55 UTC
But non-greedy matching is known to be slow. Maybe I'll need to make some benchmarks.	[reply]

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