[Arnt Gulbrandsen]:
Kjetil Torgrim Homme writes:
> [Tim Showalter]:
>> If I had done minimal-matching right-to-left, would the result
>> have been greedy? (This would resolve my objection.)
>
> yes.
No. Consider the match for a*a in ababa: A minimal match takes aba
no matter whether it's right-to-left or left-to-right, a greedy
one takes ababa.
doh! I assumed anchored matching, sorry!
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Kjetil T.