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Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:52:07 -0500 |
The basic concept of a character class is an entity surrounded by
matching parentheses. However, quirks such as quoting make it
necessary to understand the construct in terms of left-to-right
parsing for complete understanding of the details.
I think the manual needs to explain both levels--the first level so
beginners can begin to understand, and the second level for precise
thinking about counterintuitive regexps.
I could certainly do that, but I am terribly overloaded. Would
someone else like to try it?
Meanwhile, I sure wish the quoting conventions for regexps
were more rational. But that would be an incompatible change
and I think the minuses will always outweigh the pluses.
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, (continued)
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Andreas Schwab, 2006/03/02
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, martin rudalics, 2006/03/01
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Andreas Schwab, 2006/03/02
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, martin rudalics, 2006/03/02
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Andreas Schwab, 2006/03/01
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/02
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, martin rudalics, 2006/03/04
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/02
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/07
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, martin rudalics, 2006/03/07
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/04
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/03/04
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/04
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, martin rudalics, 2006/03/05
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/05
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, martin rudalics, 2006/03/06
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/05
- Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps, martin rudalics, 2006/03/05