|
From: | Wolfgang Laun |
Subject: | Re: [bug-gawk] In Regexps, Extra (Unmatched) Closing Parentheses Does Not Produce Error Message, Treated Literally |
Date: | Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:58:34 +0200 |
On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 15:41, <address@hidden> wrote: > Wolfgang Laun <address@hidden> wrote: > > > gawk maintainers: > > There might be one argument for indicating an error for an unmatched > > closing parenthesis: pairs of parentheses can be nested, and this makes a > > stray ')' easy to overlook. (At least /usr/bin/mawk does this.) > > This is down in the guts of the dfa and regex matchers; that code > comes from GNULIB and isn't easy to modify. To the point that I won't > even think about looking into it. > It wasn't meant as a suggestion. > Mawk has its own writen-from-scratch regexp matcher and so can do > that kind of thing. > Even so they weren't overdoing it. I'm inclined to think that it supports my p.o.v. -W > > Arnold >
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |