Hi Junio, On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> And then there is an unnamed misdesigned language that has a > regmatch() function, which takes a string that contains a regular > expression, but somehow requires that string to begin and end with a > slash for no justifiable reason ;-). It makes more sense once you realize that /<regexp>/ is a very nice syntactic construct to obtain an instance of a regular expression object, rather than a string describing one. In Perl it is not as obvious as in Javascript. But in C, we do not have objects, so the way to describe a regular expression is a string (which you have to compile into an opaque data structure before applying it). Ciao, Johannes
