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Re:Show HN: Regular expression compilation visualized by unhammer on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:30AM (#26554719)
Only regular expressions[0] can compile to FST's; Perl-style regexes aren't regular.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language

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