On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Brad Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Basically use | in regexes unless you need ||. There's been some discussion, here and in IRC, of the | form interacting in ways that are correct but which people often don't expect. This can result in match failures or unexpected slowness. My takeaway is there's no simple-minded "do this" or "do this if/unless" rule as yet. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
