On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 23:53, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote:
> > On 19 Aug 2010, at 17:48, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > >> 3. Everybody knows them > > > > that's not true. http://xkcd.com/208/ > > > > To answer to this "reinventing" . We had long discussions on how to > > manage rewriting in couchapps. Some included "regexp", we fall in the > > current system. Ie pattern matching because it was a lot easier to > > understand and *simple*. SInce the system is already in place, I > > wanted to reuse it too, there is no need to have 2 dofferent ways to > > handle rewriting. > > > > I would like to keep it *simple*, that's the key. > > We're approaching bike shed territory... :D > Sure. This is my final statement on the matter. My feeling is when you need * pattern matching (the concept, not Erlang) * capturing substrings * building new strings based on the captured parts * Understood by *most* programmers and sysadmins is lagniappe Then the burden of proof is on the person who says regular expressions are inferior to an off-the-cuff implementation. -- Jason Smith Couchio Hosting
