Alan Burlison wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote: > > My biggest gripe against it is that it's very easy for bugs to popup by use > > of > > regular expressions, which plague Perl in practice. It's not that regular > > expressions are bad, it's that in use it has shown that this has been one of > > the areas where bugs have cropped up in Perl, historically. > > We better ban Java as well then. It's REs are more-or-less identical to > those in perl. ;-)
Add ksh93 to that list, too. Somewhere on my list is to extend the ~(mod) selector for pattern to include ~(P) for perl patterns... =:-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
