On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:21:10PM +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: > 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! ;-) >
Ah, good, so since this is almost mathematics, and we have two instances, that's a proof then. :-) Ross -- Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reeds...@rice.edu Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166 Connexions http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665 Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005 GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
