From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT.Regpat problem.
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:37:58 +0100
Date: 2011-03-24T18:37:57+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13ysjzq8nlkr9.ixn8sxorjykk.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4d8b6f3f$0$6984$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:20:14 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 24.03.11 15:34, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> BTW, there recently was an article criticizing overuse of REs in UNIX,
>> suggesting SNOBOL-like patterns instead.
>
> That's odd. The creators of SNOBOL-4 and SPITBOL have
> always say, "Don't use patterns!"
But if you decided not to follow this wise advice, better use the SNOBOL
ones than REs.
> (Debugging clever uses of patterns isn't fun, all
> the more when the patterns are powerful.)
True. Any declarative approach to programming suffers this problem.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-22 18:35 GNAT.Regpat problem Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-22 19:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-22 19:17 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-22 19:21 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-22 20:31 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-24 10:23 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-24 10:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-24 14:04 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-24 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-24 16:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-24 17:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-03-24 21:12 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-25 9:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-24 16:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
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