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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT.Regpat problem.
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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.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de