On 17 Dec 2006, at 04:20, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Whatever you think the substitution API should be (and I'm not a huge fan of Perl's), putting patterns into simple string literals is hateful.
Reach for the root cause: regexps themselves are hateful. Nasy, cryptic line noise. -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/