Freeze problem with Regular Expression

[Kirk]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:43:22 -0700, John Machin wrote:

>> I reply here to all of you about such point: that's not important,
>> although I appreciate very much your suggestions! My point was
>> 'something that works in Perl, has problems in Python'.
> 
> It *is* important; our point was 'you didn't define "works", and it was

ok...

> near-impossible (without transcribing your regex into verbose mode) to
> guess at what you suppose it might do sometimes'.

fine: it's supposed to terminate! :-)

Do you think that hanging is an *admissible* behavior? Couldn't we learn 
something from Perl implementation?

This is my point.

Bye

-- 
Kirk