regexp vs posix vs perl was Re: Regexp broken

[lantz moore <lm...@tump.com>]

"Daniel F. Savarese" <df...@savarese.org> writes:

> >concerned, the patterns are the issue.  there is a standardized syntax for
> >regular expressions such that regular expressions should be more or less
> >portable across implementations. 
> 
> The regexp project originally set out to implement a POSIX compatible
> syntax (I believe) and has added some Perlesque things that make it a
> superset of POSIX.  At any rate, I think sometimes people report things
> as bugs in regexp that aren't bugs because they're comparing it to Perl.
> Nonetheless, your bug report is still a bug when compared to POSIX.

on a somewhat related topic.

in 1.2, the following is in the RETest.txt file:
#30
a[b-]
ac
YES
ac

this seems bogus to me from both a perl and posix standpoint.

-l