On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 21:41 -0400, Graydon Saunders wrote: > I find myself feeling like it isn't necessarily a good idea to mix in > regular expression concepts. A regular expression is just a compact notation - perhaps excessively compact - for expressing a grammar. So there's already some overlap. Agreed, a negative lookahead assertion seems odd without also having a positive one, when you look it from that perspective, but maybe there aren't any use cases for the positive ones. Although if they were added, maybe uses would arise :) -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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