From: mark hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T08:14:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26087] Re: R:  Re: Hello World considered harmful

>some people say that anything using regexes is bad

I was surprised when Sun announced that the next Java release would have
regex in the standard library.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ciaran McCreesh" <keesh@users-dot-sf.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:33 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:26033] Re: R: Re: Hello World considered harmful


> Erik B�gfors wrote:
> > face it people.  You can do obfuscating in (almost) any language.  There
> > is nothing wrong with having a bit fun with it. :)
>
> Some people have strange ideas of what bad code is... I've seen the
> following (or something along these lines) criticised for lack of clarity:
>
>   if (matched = (@mystr[@currentpos, -1][/<!DOCTYPE/]))
>     # do something with matched
>
> Is that bad code? I wouldn't say so, but some manager-types think
> otherwise. Sure, if you've never used Ruby it could look strange, but if
> you're not a Ruby programmer then you shouldn't be messing with Ruby code.
>
> Heck, some people say that anything using regexes is bad, because it ain't
> readable. I guess that's just COBOL syndrome...
>
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh
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>