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stplsd | 7 years ago

I think we should just use term regex and leave term regular expressions for, you know, actual regular expressions.

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stochastic_monk|7 years ago

What should these be called? Context-free expressions?

man-and-laptop|7 years ago

The language

    (.*)\1
is not context-free.

Also it's not clear if regexes with backreferences can parse XML, which is context-free.