>> practical application. now there are big books on `regular expressions' >> mainly because they are no longer regular but a big collection of ad-hoc > > I thought they were "regular" because they "regularly" occurred in the > target text. Turns out other interpretations are possible. Though, mine has > the advantage of being correct :-D
there's a reason they're not called regularly expressions. (if this were the definition, an expression's regularlyness would depend on the target text, would it not?) - erik
