On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 21:47, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:36:34 +0800 Clark Wang wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:50, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > there was a post explaining this
> > > > > any ~(x:...) re-type switch to an 'x' form where ')' is not special
> > > will
> > > > > fail
> > > > > because the parser doesn't know where the pattern ends
> > >
> > > > I saw that post. So we have to document it if we don't plan to fix
> it.
> > >
> > > it does need to be documented
> > > but "fix" implies "bug"
> > >
>
> > I'm not a native English speaker. I even don't quite understand what
> > `re-type switch' means in your recent posts. :) But I myself don't mind
> > those kind of things (like improvements or RFEs) be called bugs as
> > techinically there're ways to "fix" them.
>
> RE(as in regular expression)-type switch
> the two ksh forms:
>        ~(E)...
>        ~(E:...)
>

I thought "re" in "re-type" is the same as "re" in "redo". :( I was really
confused.

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