On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:31:34 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:13 am, rurpy wrote: > > > There would be far fewer computer languages, and they would be much > > more primitive if regular expressions (and the fundamental concepts > > that they express) did not exist. > > Well, that's certainly true. But only because contra-factual statements can > imply the truth of anything. If squares had seven sides, then Joseph Stalin > would have been the first woman to go to the moon on horseback.
Yes, thank you for that profoundly insightful comment. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
