On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Rob Pike <[email protected]> wrote: > Sam and Acme use a simple, pure form of regular expressions. If they > had the counting operations, this would be a trivial task, but to add > them would open the door to the enormous, ill-conceived complexity of > (no longer) regular expressions as the open source community thinks of > them.
Do you see utility in counting/movement commands if they are not combined with regular expressions? > > So yes: use other tools, with my apologies. > > -rob > >
