From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-04-08T00:44:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary  19944 - 19957


On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 10:20 AM, Kazuo Saito wrote:

> They plan to change the regexp parsing rule in 1.8.0 as follows so far.
> The plan is based on regexp coding conventions and requests from others
> in ruby-dev:
>

Please, please reconsider this.

Although the current way could be viewed as being ugly, at the same 
time it is idiomatic. I use regexps in many different languages and 
environments, and (with the exception of good ol' Emacs) they all work 
the same way. Adding a new variant will just confuse my poor little 
brain. In this case, readability comes from familiarity, not theory.

Cheers



Dave