there's a reason they're not called regularly expressions.
As explained in the post by Brian L. Stuart it's a matter of "grammar" :-P
(if this were the definition, an expression's regularlyness would
depend on the target text, would it not?)
Yes, and that _would_ be why you wouldn't craft a regex for matching in a
text with a, say, single-digit frequency of some string.
--On Monday, October 27, 2008 9:23 AM -0400 erik quanstrom
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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
