[boost] Re: regular expression proposals

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-09-14 19:39:54

>      g)   Change expression compilation to
>        support dfa style searching for those
>        expressions that are capable of it, this
>        will enable the library to give worst-case
>        performance guarantees in these cases, and
>        hopefully address the reservations
>        expressed on the mailing list.

Just to make my position clear:

Of course I like this proposal, but I wouldn't insist on it for a first
release within boost. Regex++ seems to be a fine, useful library even
without DFA searching.

-Dave

P.S. OTOH, regex++ is already available w/o DFA searching, so maybe it would
be a good idea ;)