Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Derek Parnell wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:01:56 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
These all put the regex before the string, something many people
would find unsavory.
I don't. To me the regex is what you are looking for so it's like saying
"find this pattern in that string".
Yah, but to most others it's "match this string against that pattern".
Again, regexes have a long history behind them. So probably we need to
have both "find" and "match" with different order of arguments, something .
... "I'm not thrilled about".
Andrei
