From: wtanksleyjr@...
Date: 2003-04-17T00:53:14+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions

From: "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com>

>Then came regexps in real life.  Yuck.

I know what you mean -- they just aren't nice.

>Then I started thinking:  We have Perl-style 
>regexps, right?  What other style regexps are 
>there?

Well, there's also Perl-style regexps ;-). (Perl 6
will use a rather different style which I find much
more attractive and useful, plus it's neatly fit
into a parsing construct rather than trying to
shoehorn parenthesis counting into a regexp.)

My favorite regexp actually isn't a regular expression
-- it's REBOL's 'parse' verb. It's so much tidier than
a regexp, and is also easier to express more things in.

> Chris

-Billy