Re: One benefit of having a REPL

2009-11-29 Thread Danny Woods
On Nov 28, 1:20 pm, John Harrop jharrop...@gmail.com wrote: One benefit of having a REPL: it makes regular expressions usable. So easy to test and tweak your RE compared to the traditional compile/test/debug cycle! I never even bothered with the java.util.regex package before Clojure

One benefit of having a REPL

2009-11-28 Thread John Harrop
One benefit of having a REPL: it makes regular expressions usable. So easy to test and tweak your RE compared to the traditional compile/test/debug cycle! I never even bothered with the java.util.regex package before Clojure as it was too painful to use. -- You received this message because you

Re: One benefit of having a REPL

2009-11-28 Thread Stefan Kamphausen
Hi, On Nov 28, 2:20 pm, John Harrop jharrop...@gmail.com wrote: One benefit of having a REPL: it makes regular expressions usable. So easy to test and tweak your RE compared to the traditional compile/test/debug cycle! I never even bothered with the java.util.regex package before Clojure

Re: One benefit of having a REPL

2009-11-28 Thread Nathan Hawkins
Stefan Kamphausen wrote: Hi, On Nov 28, 2:20�pm, John Harrop jharrop...@gmail.com wrote: One benefit of having a REPL: it makes regular expressions usable. So easy to test and tweak your RE compared to the traditional compile/test/debug cycle! I never even bothered

Re: One benefit of having a REPL

2009-11-28 Thread Stefan Kamphausen
Hi, On 28 Nov., 17:32, Nathan Hawkins uts...@gmail.com wrote: Stefan Kamphausen wrote: I wonder how hard it would be in Clojure to implement something like Edi Weitz' RegexpCoach http://weitz.de/regex-coach/.  I know Perl programmer who regularly create their (un)regular expressions with

Re: One benefit of having a REPL

2009-11-28 Thread zorkz...@hotmail.com
On 28 Nov., 14:20, John Harrop jharrop...@gmail.com wrote: One benefit of having a REPL: it makes regular expressions usable. So easy to test and tweak your RE compared to the traditional compile/test/debug cycle! I never even bothered with the java.util.regex package before Clojure