On 12/17/06, Robert Rothenberg <rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
Bad comparison: traditional regexps are much easier to read than the ones
used in contemporary programming languages.
PCRE-style regexp in Javascript:
regexp = /(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}/;
Traditional POSIX regexp in C:
char regexp[] = "\\([:digit:]\{1,3\}\\.\\)\\{3\\}[:digit:]\\{1,3\\}";
The second one is clearly the more horrific of the two hateful messes,
but I'll give you that it's *way* more fun to type if you just can't
get enough joyful bouncing on the backslash key.
(And traditional POSIX holds an even deeper hate - backslashes EITHER
switch a character from being a literal to a metacharacter, OR from a
metacharacter to a literal, depending on the character in question.
Consistency's for suckers, clearly.)
-- Yoz
