From: Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@...>
Date: 2009-09-10T03:12:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Joker -- Wildcards for Ruby

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because "non-computer people" (:-) might find wildcards more easily
understandable than regular expressions.

This is of course not meant as a replacement for regexps when you're
writing code but rather as a way to interface with people who don't
know about regexps

think directory listings, search queries etc.

Greetz!

2009/9/9 James Edward Gray II <james@graysoftinc.com>

> On Sep 9, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Fabian Streitel wrote:
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> Can you suggest why someone would use this instead of a regular expression?
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> James Edward Gray II
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