[Python-Dev] Why Foo is better than Baz

[Guido van Rossum]

> BTW, there's an interesting reference, I assume to this code, in
> _Mastering Regular Expressions_; Spencer is quoted on page 121 as
> saying it's "at worst quadratic in text size.".

Not sure if that was the same code -- this is *new* code, not
Spencer's old code.  I think Friedl's book is older than the current
code.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)