(...) Your statement of the LONGEST match may be correct for TCL but not for perl! look at the second regexp: the '?' inside means expand to the smallest match ( this is a perl specialty i think) the only thing is, if you nest comments like ( (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
(...) OOPS! I guess that those pesky regexps are not for the faint of heart. The new Tcl standard also allows you to specify less greedy regexps. The nesting of comments as you suggest is illegal FORTH anyways. It only specifies that a close comment (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
