Maximum Call Stack Size Exceeded with regex "a*"

[bengolds]

This is a strange one; I haven't been able to make a minimum repro case for this, so I'll just post where I found it.

In one of my programs, if I use a minimal regex expression (a*), elm-reactor crashes while loading my page with the error LatexTester.elm:1289 Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded. If I use any other regex (ab*, a+, a), it loads just fine. As far as I can tell, my code isn't doing anything else with the pattern than just passing it into Regex.regex.

Additionally, it works just fine on elm-repl and elm-make. Not sure what's going on here!

[Elm 0.18 on Chrome OS]

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