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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: rx.el sexp regexp syntax
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 08:24:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d1f1246-a1ed-4401-9ab5-c9bb0451a510@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzi0amzov.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>

> For such regexps, the exact syntax (PCRE, BRE, ERE, RX, ...) in use has
> fairly little importance: if written "raw" as above, it will be
> indecipherable in any case.
> 
> To make it readable, you need to add human-level explanations
> e.g. by adding comments and naming sub-elements.  Which is indeed what
> is done in the source code:...

Agreed.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24 10:47 rx.el sexp regexp syntax (WAS: Off Topic) Noam Postavsky
2018-05-24 10:58 ` Van L
2018-05-25  2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-25  8:52   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-25 15:51     ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-05-25 16:47       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-25 18:01         ` rx.el sexp regexp syntax Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-25 18:12           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-25 18:56             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-25 21:42               ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-25 21:51                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-25 22:27                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 22:44                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-27 20:27           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-28 16:37             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-28 17:15               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-29  3:10                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-29  7:28                   ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-29  8:27                 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-30  3:24                   ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-30  7:25                     ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-31  3:53                       ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-31  8:57                         ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-31  4:13                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-31 14:19                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-31 15:43                         ` Drew Adams
2018-05-31 16:12                           ` João Távora
2018-05-31 16:18                             ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-31 16:48                               ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-31 17:02                                 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-31 18:40                                   ` João Távora
2018-06-02 19:33             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-03  3:49               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-03  4:59                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-03 14:51                 ` Helmut Eller
2018-06-03 15:15                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-03 15:53                     ` Helmut Eller
2018-06-03 16:40                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-03 19:57                       ` Drew Adams
2018-06-03 21:15                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-03 23:23                           ` Drew Adams
2018-06-04 13:56                         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-04 15:24                           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-06-04 15:44                             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-25 18:17         ` rx.el sexp regexp syntax (WAS: Off Topic) Alan Mackenzie
2018-05-25 20:35           ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-05-25 21:01           ` rx.el sexp regexp syntax Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-25 23:32             ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-05-27 16:56       ` Tom Tromey
2018-05-27 20:16         ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-05-27 20:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-27 20:16     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-28 16:36       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-28 17:04         ` Stefan Monnier

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