From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2010-09-11T12:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's regex

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Young Wah <rubyview@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, regular expression support is typically built into only
> scripting languages,
> such as Ruby, Perl, and awk. This is a shame: regular expressions,
> although cryptic,
> are a powerful tool for working with text. And having them built in,
> rather than tacked
> on through a library interface, makes a big difference.
>
> The above statement is in the book "Programming Ruby" the second edition.
> Why the author said "this is a shame"? I don't understand well. Thanks.

I believe the author means that it would be wonderful if other
languages had built-in regular expressions too.

(it's a shame that other languages don't have built-in regex support
=> it would be wonderful if they did)