On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Antony Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 27/03/2008, Nikolai Weibull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /left-most/ longest. Big difference. > I thought the `left-most' part was a given and we were > discussing which of the alternatives would be subsequently > picked; sorry if I was misleading. In this case POSIX > specifies that the alternative which gives the longest > overall match is picked, whereas backtracking > implementations (like that in Vim) are usually designed to > pick the first alternative that gives an overall match, even > if a different choice would give a longer overall match. > I know you know this already, I'm just trying to be clear! > Now, I'm still not sure I've managed to do that, so please > rephrase my explanation for me if you think it is necessary Don't worry. I was just making it clear to everyone what we were discussing. (And your explanation is fine ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
