I guess so. But note that I didn't equate them. I just said that you can use an ID index instead. For the particular program of FSMs, they work very well. If b

I guess so. But note that I didn't equate them. I just said that you can use an ID index instead. For the particular program of FSMs, they work very well. If bounds checks prove to be a problem, you can explicitly elide them. Indeed, Rust's regex does just that. :-)