Quinn Dunkan quinn at pfennig.ugcs.caltech.edu
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:54:55 -0500, Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>The parser has trouble with 5.radix because "maximal munch" lexing sucks up

Beautiful!  Move aside, "greedy matching", let's go change the re
documentation to say "maximal munch".

have-to-have-something-to-differentiate-ourselves-from-perlers-ly y'rs


incidentally, in ruby:
4.type -> Fixnum
4. isn't a float in ruby
4.0.type -> Float

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