Re: Perl 5's "non-greedy" matching can be TOO greedy!

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:29:56 -0700

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.regex
Message-ID	<11119.976912196@chthon>

>As for special-case rules, I believe that my proposed modification would
>REMOVE a special-case semantic rule, at the cost of added complexity at the
>implementation level.  

What is this alleged "special-case rule" you are talking about?
There is no such thing.  None.  When you write /pat/, it means to
find the first such pattern.  There is no special case here.

--tom