On 03/09/2013 01:34 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
Yes, we really do need to discuss things. If JOSM guys came here and
said, we want to implement 'in' operation in selectors, and we want to
use ~= syntax, I could tell them: why not just call it 'in' how it's
done in other languages? Same for ^=, *=, $= — all of them could be
implemented with a unified-style glob operation like this:
highway *= "foo*"
highway *= "*tway"
highway *= "*ootwa*"
In my opinion, it's much clearer and leaves possibility for other
symbols to be used when needed. Actually, the only benefit of this
glob-like operation or JOSM-style ^=/*=/$= is that it's usually faster
than a regex... Which is basically when you can't precompile a regex
beforehand; regexes are usually of the same speed when pre-compiled.
This is taken from the CSS specification / draft:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#attribute-selectors
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#attribute-substrings
I would agree that a glob notation is clearer and more intuitive, but so
far I've tried to respect the CSS syntax, unless there is a reason not to.
Paul
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