earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

Chris Nicholson-Sauls ibisbasenji at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 16:19:33 PST 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I was thinking of moving older stuff to etc, is that ok?
>>
>> Yes. But you should also rename the new one, perhaps to std.regex. 
>> That way, legacy code will refuse to compile, rather than compile 
>> wrongly.
> 
> Terrific. I prefer "regex" to "regexp" because it's easier to pronounce, 
> particularly if you're a foreigner. "Regex" sounds like a frog utterance 
> by a forest lake, "regexp" sounds like nothing in particular.
> 
> Andrei

It sounds to me like a frog who, immediately post-utterance, just got 
gigged.  I guess that makes "regex" sound even better... as its still 
alive (sounding).

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls
-- Who so far agrees with pretty much everything you've said, and 
therefore has no real contribution...



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