Re: variables: greedy or non-greedy matching

[Ned Freed]:
>   [Jutta Degener]:
>   > So let's stay greedy; thanks for setting me straight!
>   
>   No problem ;-) And let's also remember that a necessary corollary
>   here is that the regexp we end up choosing needs to support both
>   greedy and non-greedy matching.
why?  I thought we only needed that if :matches was non-greedy.

I wouldn't mind having non-greedy regexps, but they're not in POSIX.2
which the regex draft refers to.

-- 
Kjetil T.