Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: George Neuner Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: re2c-1.0 released! Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:11:22 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <17-09-004@comp.compilers> References: <17-08-007@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="33985"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: lex Posted-Date: 02 Sep 2017 23:50:30 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1909 On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:25:41 +0100, Ulya Trofimovich wrote: >As it turns out, submatch extraction is inherently more complex than >recognition: it can be solved on NFA, but not on (ordinary) DFA. I don't know what this means ... every NFA has an equivalent DFA, so if a problem can be solved with NFA, it can be solved with DFA. George