Is Perl *that* good?

[Carl Banks]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Carl Banks <imbosol at aerojockey.invalid> wrote:
>> especially because regexps are
>> prone to being used in recursive functions and such
> 
> Why are regexps prone to being used in recursive functions?

Prone was probably a bit too strong a word, but using regexps inside a
recursive function is far from an obscure use.  It can show up in
functions that parse arbitrarily nested text, which typically use
recursion to handle the arbitrarily nested part.


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