[dlang] Mistakes in documentation

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 19 08:15:23 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 14:29:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:43:13PM +0000, Chris via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I noticed some mistakes in
>> 
>> http://dlang.org/regular-expression.html
>> 
>> I haven't checked the whole page for mistakes, but I suggest 
>> we change the
>> following paragraph:
>> 
>> [Current]
>> Here is where regular expressions come in handy, often 
>> succinctly called as
>> regexes. Regexes are simple yet powerful language for defining 
>> patterns of
>> strings, put together with a substitution mechanism, they form 
>> a Swiss Army
>> knife of text processing. They are considered so useful that a 
>> number of
>> languages provides built-in support for regular expressions. 
>> This does not
>> nessary mean that built-in implies faster processing or more 
>> features. It's
>> more a matter of providing convenient and friendly syntax for 
>> typical
>> operations and usage patterns.
>> 
>> [Suggestion]
>> Here is where regular expressions – often just called 
>> <i>regexes</i> – come
>> in handy. Regular expressions are a simple yet comprehensive 
>> language for
>> defining string patterns. Combined with a mechanism for string 
>> substitution,
>> regular expressions are a powerful tool for text processing. 
>> In fact, they
>> are considered so useful that a number of languages provide 
>> built-in support
>> for them. However, built-in support does <b>not</b> 
>> necessarily imply
>> <b>faster</b> processing or more features, it is rather a way 
>> of providing a
>> <b>convenient and user-friendly syntax</b> for typical 
>> operations and usage
>> patterns.
>> 
>> [something along these lines]
>
> Let's see the PR!  ;-)
>
>
> T

Done.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/997


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