Builtin regex (Was: How to complex switch?)
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Wed May 18 10:03:50 PDT 2011
Timon Gehr:
> Library code should make use of the language to implement its semantics.
> Not the other way round.
Why?
> Another reason I dislike it: it looks different to other "tuple literals"
> that are already built-in:
>
> foo (note, how, this, is, a, tuple, "!");
Looking different from the built-in ones was the point of it, to avoid clashes.
> Still, I think (|1,2,3|) is not optimal.
Please, invent better things :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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