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Re: Fixing ill-conditioned regular expressions. Proof of concept.
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Fixing ill-conditioned regular expressions. Proof of concept. |
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Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:12:32 -0500 |
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>> > R*\(\)R*
>> > , but anybody who writes such regexps deserves what she gets.
>> What is it that I deserve to get?
> You deserve, perhaps, to lose (match-beginning 1) and (match-end 1),
> which were ill-defined anyway.
Why do you think so? They seem perfectly well-defined to me.
They're just always equal to one another, of course, but to the extent
that the regexp syntax only forces me to put "named positions" in pairs,
if I need a single position, it's fairly natural to just use \(\).
> Have you really written a regexp like this (apart from for testing
> purposes)?. If so, what's it for?
grep '\\\\(\\\\)' **/*.el
finds 27 matches. Taking one example from the list:
lisp/emacs-lisp/smie.el: ((looking-at "\\s(\\|\\s)\\(\\)")
what this does is to let me use (match-beginning 1) to figure out which
of the two alternatives was matched. I could have written this as
((looking-at "\\s(\\|\\(\\s)\\)")
but this would be (marginally) slower, because we'd always push
a "group-start" marker before try to match "\\s)", whereas with the
other rule, we only do that when we know "\\s)" has matched.
> By the way, how do you see the prospects of this file becoming
> incorporated into Emacs at some stage?
To be honest, I haven't looked at it at all, yet.
The vague understanding I have of what it might be sounds interesting.
It's just a patch trying to cover up the worst aspects of the
current regexp engine, but since there doesn't seem to be much interest
in improving/overhauling the regexp engine, maybe it's a good stop-gap.
Stefan
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