On 2011 Nov 29, at 18:14, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > 1. Everyone should acknowledge the JWZ quote, "Some people, when > confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' > Now they have two problems." Regular expressions are Perl's hammer that > makes most problems look like a nail.
What Neil said! > 2. Before someone spends too much time putting the finishing touches on > old Unix/Perl regular expression syntax, they might want to look at Olin > Shivers's SREs. Sexp-based regular expression syntax can be a big > readability win when your regexps get complicated. > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/citations.html#sre What Neil said _and_ what Shivers said! Implementing Shivers-style SREs would be a much bigger win than any alternate pregexp syntax with differently funky backslash rules from everything else. Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
