Hi,
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > -aaa (aaa)
> > +aaa (aaa) aaa
>
> Bug aside, examples like this one make me wonder if we should force a
> "last resort" match for `[^[:space:]]`. For example,
>
> -aaa [aaa]
> +aaa (aaa) aaa
>
> would still give you
>
> aaa (aaa)<GREEN> aaa<RESET>
>
> which may be unexpected.
But why should it be unexpected? If people say that every length of "a"
makes a word, and consequently everything else is clutter, then that's
that, no?
So people might be surprised, but then they should have said something
like
[-.+#@"'$%^&*([{<>~|]*[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*[-.+#@"'$%&*)\]}>|]*
instead.
Although I have to say that for some applications, it is a pity that
even POSIX extended regular expressions knows neither lookahead nor
lookbehind.
Which reminds me... should we activate REG_EXTENDED by default?
Ciao,
Dscho
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