On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:34:54 +0900, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> * Simon Strandgaard <neoneye / adslhome.dk> [Nov, 26 2003 20:10]:
>> Why does /[]]/ not raise an exception, when /[]/ does ?
> well, it is standard to allow having ] as the first character in a []
> character class definition, as the empty character class is usually
> illegal.  it is, however, not very obvious and so Ruby complains (with a
> warning) if it sees one.  I'd say that you should go the Perl6 way and
> remove character classes defined in this way from you regex library.
> That's what I'm going to do.
> 	nikolai

Good idea, I will do that.


I have just made my first attempt to exercise my regexp-engine
against the rubicon testsuite, status are:
pass=1202, fail=358,  pass/total=77.0512820512821

Interesting experience.

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Simon Strandgaard