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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Monger (talk | contribs) at 04:03, 12 July 2007 (→Ill defined terms). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Ill-defined terms

Too many of the terms used as headings are vague or apply only to the terminology used for one RE engine. What this article really needs is a glossary of its terms.

There's also a fair point to be made that many of the tables here could be prose, and that would facilitate citing them. -Harmil 19:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree a terminology description would be useful. However I strongly disagree some of the tables should be converted to text. First because that takes away this articles main feature - the ability to see differences within seconds without reading for hours - and secondly citing Wikipedia is discouraged anyway. // Sping 17:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Care to give examples of terminology you consider too vague or applicable only to "the terminology used for one RE engine."? (I'm not really sure what you mean by that.) I think the terms are fairly straightforward. IMO, a bigger problem is that a very large number of significant features supported by some regex libraries are not currently represented in the comparison tables here. --Monger 04:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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