Then came regexps in real life. Yuck.
I know what you mean – they just aren’t nice.
Then I started thinking: We have Perl-style
regexps, right? What other style regexps are
there?
Well, there’s also Perl-style regexps ;-). (Perl 6
will use a rather different style which I find much
more attractive and useful, plus it’s neatly fit
into a parsing construct rather than trying to
shoehorn parenthesis counting into a regexp.)
My favorite regexp actually isn’t a regular expression
– it’s REBOL’s ‘parse’ verb. It’s so much tidier than
a regexp, and is also easier to express more things in.
Chris
-Billy
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From: “Chris Pine” nemo@hellotree.com