On Jun17, 2011, at 17:15 , Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:20:04AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Excerpts from Florian Pflug's message of vie jun 17 10:03:56 -0400 2011: >> >>> How is that worse than the situation with "=~" and "~="? >> >> With =~ it is to the right, with ~= it is to the left. > > To throw my user opinion into this ring (as a long time user of regexes > in many different systems) I've always taken the ~ to be short hand for > the 'approximately' notation (a squiggly equals) which has good semantic > match in my mind: a regex match is sort of a fuzzy equality. With that > model, the suggested pair is fairly mnemonic - the 'fuzzy' part i(the > pattern) is next to the squiggles, the 'concrete' part goes by the > equals.
Hey, that's my mnemonic device! ;-) best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
