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That's a context free grammar, you cheater! <Read the link…> Okay, so Perl Compatible Regular Expressions can parse context-free grammars. And context sensit
by loup-vaillant 12y ago
That's a context free grammar, you cheater!
<Read the link…>
Okay, so Perl Compatible Regular Expressions can parse context-free grammars. And context sensitive grammars. And who knows what more.
I understand there's a difference between theory and practice, but this is a plain misuse of the word "regular". PCRE should be renamed "Perl Compatible Parsing Facility" or something.