5 Jun
2006
5 Jun
'06
5:05 p.m.
Juho Snellman jsnell@iki.fi writes:
slime-apropos does a regular expression search, try *package*. IIRC that's caused by a bug in the handling of a leading `*` or `+` in nregex.
This is a really funny common problem in simple regexp matchers. For example "x?*" will put many of them into an infinite loop as they try to find the longest match, first with zero nothings, then one nothing, then two nothings, etc. :-)
Must remember to try entering such expressions the next time some program offers a regexp interface. :-)
Cheers, Luke