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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