From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0fa6eae2c537e3d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:04:50 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:04:43 -0400 From: "Peter C. Chapin" Subject: Re: GNAT.Regpat problem. In-Reply-To: <1thhy53rdlhrs.1tygcc01f6i11$.dlg@40tude.net> Message-ID: References: <41cae3ac-97b6-4b01-ad73-9ff1ec2fdf86@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <1thhy53rdlhrs.1tygcc01f6i11$.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (WNT 1167 2008-08-23) X-X-Sender: pcc09070@vtc.vsc.edu@webmail.vtc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-AT9sXa0OqwpZpKVF7UssxD5PVVF65aGj/skYvT4//m+hAyWXj/ehMhj4P5JnQ5dCKlXp7htURmPO3gP!tWhkjOmNa9gBq59uwDR78Mqb0MQ3i6TD51iBYPL1kLd/wkSm4X01r6KTPzocPAgpF7PE2KapBg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1663 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18425 Date: 2011-03-24T10:04:43-04:00 List-Id: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > Just curious, why are you using regular expressions when GNAT offers > Spitbol patterns? Spitbol patterns seemed like overkill. Are you saying that there is no valid use case for the regular expression packages in GNAT's library (aside, perhaps, for legacy support)? Peter