On Feb 14, 2008, at 09:07, Jim Jagielski wrote:
It's not even just that "there is a second substitution" but rather
that the pattern/regex being looked for could possibly be the
result of a previous substition.
If you have to subs like
s/foo/bar/
s/plum/apple/
there is no way one could affect the other (or depend
on the other) so flattening is not required.
Yes, I understand that, but I figured it would probably take longer
to determine, on an arbitrary case, whether there was such an
overlap, than to perform the flattening.
--
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substitute for wit."
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