Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[Luc Teirlinck]

Richard Stallman write:

   You're interpreting the term "context" the same way the regexp
   compiler does: meaning the preceding characters of the regexp.

Of course I do.  That is the only interpretation my computer cares about.
If I interpret a regexp differently from the regexp compiler, the
regexp compiler wins, and I loose.  So I do not want to do that.

   The regexp compiler works from left to right.

I usually read regexps left to right too, keeping track of context the
same way the regexp compiler does.  I want to make sure that I
interprete regexps the same way the regexp compiler and my computer do.

Sincerely,

Luc.