>>>>> "AO" == Andy Oram <an...@oreilly.com> writes:
AO> The Regular Expressions Cookbook authors were extremely AO> detail-oriented, almost fanatically so. They're excellent writers, AO> and so careful that I was shocked to hear that someone found typos AO> (as people do with every book). They like to be thorough. I'm sure AO> they covered every nook and cranny of every topic. On the flip AO> side, if they decide they don't think much of something, they AO> totally leave it out. They decided that POSIX classes (such as AO> [[:alpha:]]) were lame and outdated, so I believe they didn't even AO> drop a hint in the book that they existed. In contrast, they spent AO> a pretty good amount of time on UNICODE. i haven't looked at it in any serious way yet. do they mention Regexp::Common? it probably solves many of those recipe problems all in one giant module. and i always find it amusing how most other langs slam perl whenever they can but brag about 'having' perl compatible regexes. which none of them really have since there are things in perl regexes that only perl can do (like s///e and more). uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Free Perl Training --- http://perlhunter.com/college.html --------- --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
