Pathological regular expression
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 11:48:50 EDT 2009
> IMHO it's not a bug -- s/hang/takes a long time to compute/
>
That is quite what a hang is, and why the timeout was invented. The
real bug is that there is no timeout mechanism.
> Just look at it: 2 + operators and 3 * operators ... It's one of those
> "come back after lunch" REs.
>
Some users would not be able to tell that from the beginning. While a
timeout override would be necessary in these cases, a timeout should
be set.
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