On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:47:42AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> : This test seems to cause an infinite loop
> : (with parrot_2004-12-16_160001)
> :
> : p6rule_isnt('a--', '^[a?b?]*$', 're_tests 387 (#438)'); # infinite loop
>
> Detecting failure to progress can be quite tricky, actually. It's eas
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:Henry Spencer's original regex routines simply disallowed expressions
:that might be infinite. We tried relaxing that in Perl 5, and got
:it wrong more than one way. I'm not actually sure what approach p5
:takes right now, if any.
We detect and warn of repe
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:16:31PM +0200, Markus Laire wrote:
: Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: >>Larry mentioned 're_tests' file from perl5-source. Is anyone working on
: >>it currently? I could make a simple script to convert at least some of
: >>it to this pge-testing format which uses p6rule_*
:
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:16:31PM +0200, Markus Laire wrote:
>
> This test seems to cause an infinite loop
> (with parrot_2004-12-16_160001)
>
> p6rule_isnt('a--', '^[a?b?]*$', 're_tests 387 (#438)'); # infinite loop
So far repeating groups of zero-length strings causes an infinite loop-
I jus
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Larry mentioned 're_tests' file from perl5-source. Is anyone working on
it currently? I could make a simple script to convert at least some of
it to this pge-testing format which uses p6rule_*
'simple script' .. it isn't so simple anymore ;)
I'm not aware of anyone worki
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Markus Laire wrote:
> I'm currently writing few tests for PGE. So far I've found 2 failing
> tests: (with parrot_2004-12-16_160001.tar.gz)
>
> p6rule_like('abcabbc', 'ab+?bc', qr/0: /, '');
> p6rule_like('abbcabbbc', 'ab+?', qr/0: /, '');
Woops, the comp
I'm currently writing few tests for PGE. So far I've found 2 failing
tests: (with parrot_2004-12-16_160001.tar.gz)
p6rule_like('abcabbc', 'ab+?bc', qr/0: /, '');
p6rule_like('abbcabbbc', 'ab+?', qr/0: /, '');
output from "perl t/harness mytests/*.t" is attached.
Larry mentioned 're_tests' file fr
