On 06 Sep 2000 18:04:18 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
I think the -1 indexing for "end of array" came from there. Or at
least, it was in Perl long before it was in Python, and it was in Icon
before it was in Perl, so I had always presumed Larry had seen Icon.
Larry?
Do not assume that these
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:37:55PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
Question: Is there value in extending the regex/pattern engine to
support matching patterns in a list of foobars?
I can see this taking two forms (beyond the strings we have today).
One is matching number patterns (fibonaci,
2. Many people - including Larry - have voiced their desire
to see =~ die a horrible death
Please provide a look-up-able reference to Larry's saying that he
wanted to =~ to die horrible death.
Larry said:
# Well, the fact is, I've been thinking about possible ways to get rid
#
Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
Larry said:
# Well, the fact is, I've been thinking about possible ways to get rid
# of =~ for some time now, so I certainly don't mind brainstorming in
# this direction.
That is in
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On Wed 06 Sep, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
I've been thinking the same thing. It seems to me that the attempts to
shoehorn parsers into regex syntax have either been unsuccessful
(yielding an underpowered extension) or illegible or both.
SNOBOL:
parenstring = '(' *parenstring ')'
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Eric Roode wrote:
Richard Proctor wrote:
I think what is needed is something along the line of :
$re = qz{ '(' \$re ')'
| \$re \$re
| [^()]+
};
Where qz is some hypothetical
- Original Message -
From: "Jonathan Scott Duff" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145
(alternate approach))
How about qy() for Quote Yacc :-) This stuff is starting to look
more and more like we're trying to fold lex and yacc into
Bart Lateur wrote:
On 06 Sep 2000 18:04:18 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
I think the -1 indexing for "end of array" came from there. Or at
least, it was in Perl long before it was in Python, and it was in Icon
before it was in Perl, so I had always presumed Larry had seen Icon.
