More Perl regex stuff in E

by way of "Mark S. Miller" <markm@caplet.com> shapj@us.ibm.com
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 07:33:03 -0700


[Forwarded with permission.  --MarkM]

> Here's a readability test: By reading this code,
> can you easily tell what syntax it parses?

No.

That aside, one of the goals of E is to be a *secure* scripting language.  What
gives you confidence in the code integrity/security of something as large
as the
Perl regular expression library?

Jonathan S. Shapiro
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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