Re: What's the name of this library? (was: Re: autotools transition report: v 28.07)

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:

| On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:29:51PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
| > 
| > |  Obviate the need
| > |    for bizarre little tweaks all through the CVS server backend scripts
| > |    because "++" isn't matched by the normal word regex.  Obviate the
| > |    current problems.
| > 
| > come on, we have been having the drivers called "c++" and "g++" for
| > nearly two decades.  
| > Tools that cannot cope  with libstdc++ are broken and should be fixed :-/
| 
| "+" is not part of any natural language alphabet.

Do you have any reference for that assertion?

| So when a regex is built
| that looks for <word><not-a-word><word>, the "++" ends up in the wrong part
| of the match.

That simply means you have the wrong definition of "word".

-- Gaby