From: Rick Rezinas <rick@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T07:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Speed up suggestions (regex obj vs plain usage)

my guess is this:
plural of ox is oxen
so obviously plural of computer is boxen
and thus that of regex _must_ be regexen.

pure deductive logic ;)

Gavin Sinclair (gsinclair@soyabean.com.au) wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ryan Davis" <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>
> 
> > NOW, can someone tell me why regexen in place are much faster than 
> > instantiated regexen?
> 
> Can somebody tell me why the plural of "regex" is "regexen"?
> 
> Gavin
>