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Subject: Re: Limits on paren pairs
From: Jon Stevens <jon@latchkey.com>
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on 7/19/2000 8:31 AM, "Peter Wilkinson" <pwilkinson@thirdfloor.com.au>
wrote:

> Does anyone know why RE.java and RECompiler.java hava a 'max paren' set to
> 16??? Is this for compliance with a particular spec or just an
> implementation choice???
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> PeterW.
> 
> Peter Wilkinson
> pwilkinson@thirdfloor.com.au


Probably just an implementation choice for speed reasons. Since you have the
source code, you can change it or submit a patch that moves it into a
properties file. :-)

-jon