At first I thought it was magic. Once I know what the trick is I though “Oh”. It’s like magic IRL.
It’s pretty useless anyway since you have to have unary representation and I can’t imagine this being any fast on a large number.
Cool stuff!
Unfortunate that the overloading of ‘regular expressions’ like this blurs the line between formal regular expressions and regular expressions as provided by most programming languages.
At first I thought it was magic. Once I know what the trick is I though “Oh”. It’s like magic IRL.
It’s pretty useless anyway since you have to have unary representation and I can’t imagine this being any fast on a large number.
Cool stuff!
Unfortunate that the overloading of ‘regular expressions’ like this blurs the line between formal regular expressions and regular expressions as provided by most programming languages.