--LFfgDJxfwIo2B4Jq26r Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 16:00 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote: > Btw, because of the nature of the engine there are some more differences > between DFA and NFA, for example typically order of expressions in an > alternative matters with a NFA engine. I prefer that often, because it > allows to control the way the RX engine matches to a certain extent, > i.e. you can prioritize alternatives which can be pretty handy at times. Nope, you can effectively prioritize alternatives with DFAs, the same way you can specify greedy/non-greedy matches. NFAs and DFAs _really are_ equivalent in expressiveness. -mental --LFfgDJxfwIo2B4Jq26r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGH+HBSuZBmZzm14ERAvxvAJoDwNX5QGU3c0N26SRDIUcWSp7yNwCfe7mN W1HagW3eooNPKyn94RhqzRwSD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LFfgDJxfwIo2B4Jq26r--