On September 7, 2002 23:40, David's Mailing List and Spam Reciever wrote: > > I still wouldn't take out regular expressions. There quite powerful and > facilitate things like searching beginning and ends of > verses/lines/whatever it ends up being I forget off hand. Additionally, > regex syntax is sometimes easier for us *nix heads than stringing together > a bunch of boolean logic strings. ^_~ Plus, it's just useful in language > bindings that support regex and not that other. For example Perl, python > and php all have native regex. and I'd wadger with perl at least it would > be easier on us perl developers to let us use Perl or POSIX compliant regex > directly into the functions in the bindings and stuff than it is for us to > build complex booleans. But I can think of instances where both would be > useful.
I don't plan on removing any current functionality so regex support will stay as it is. It just won't be augmented by the indexed searching like the other search methods will. > Furthermore I just plain think regex is keen :D > > But really I don't see why we shouldn't provide either both or some mix of > the two as what you've got is pretty powerful too and easier to use than > regex for the uninitiated. Anyway it's late. I've been coding in Pascal > most of the day and now I must sleep for Pascal is evil.
