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Alex Shinn scripsit: > Expensive is the O(n^3) for the next step up the Chomsky hierarchy. > I think exponential warrants the use of "prohibitively." The feature > is included mostly for completeness, for round-trip conversion from > existing PCRE libraries, and I think the advice that it should never > actually be used is warranted. It's awfully handy for things like /<([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-]*>[^<]*</\1>/, though (given some restrictions that often apply in practice, like no recursive elements and no non-ASCII element names). > More importantly, while I appreciate your attention to editorial > detail, I think you need to lighten up. We had to be very precise > for the core document because there were a lot of eyes on it and > people were very, very picky about exactly what went into it. > This is just a SRFI for a library, and I think a little opinion and dare > I say "color" from the authors should be allowed. I'll drop this issue now. But as a counter-point, remember that you're writing for R7RS-large here, as I have no intention of merging all these SRFIs into a single megadoc; I'm going to incorporate them by reference. > Right now what we want more than anything is people jumping > in and writing new SRFIs. It's a tiring and thankless enough task > as it is without requiring that the prose be boring. +1 > And the same all prefixed with `non-greedy-' I suppose? > `non-greedy-one-or-more', ... Yes. -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot cowan@xxxxxxxx that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith http://ccil.org/~cowan in the benignancy of vegetables. --And Rosta