On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> 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.

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