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		stplsd on Nov 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better ... I think we should just use term regex and leave term regular expressions for, you know, actual regular expressions.

stochastic_monk on Nov 28, 2018 [–]

What should these be called? Context-free expressions?

man-and-laptop on Nov 28, 2018 | [–]

The language

    (.*)\1

is not context-free.

Also it's not clear if regexes with backreferences can parse XML, which is context-free.

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