diff --git a/regex/doc.go b/regex/doc.go index b9afeba..d5ab197 100644 --- a/regex/doc.go +++ b/regex/doc.go @@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ Another, more subtle example is the following regex: x|xx While the stdlib implementation (and most other engines) will prefer matching the first item of the alternation, -my engine will _always_ go for the longest possible match, regardless of the order of the alternation. +this engine will _always_ go for the longest possible match, regardless of the order of the alternation. + +Byte-slices and runes: + +My engine does not support byte-slices. When a matching function receives a string, it converts it into a +rune-slice to iterate through it. While this has some space overhead, the convenience of built-in unicode +support made the tradeoff worth it. */ package regex