Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Regular expression syntax

[Franck A. <fr...@ne...>]

> For XML 1.1, the equivalent to \c is  3830417 bytes long.
> 
> This is definitely too big, so something is wrong with the test
> program. Can anyone see where the fault is (I know it's not the most
> efficient way of doing it):

it should get (much?) more compact by collapsing adjacent ranges into
forms "\x\y[\z1-\z2]" or "\x\y." (example for 3 byte utf8 sequences.) 

perhaps not to usable level for repetitive use of \c. maybe with a 'let'
construct?