From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: ambrevar@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 23:24:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fNrj2-0006me-CS@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkQJejpLPXDidwX8CKbzSXzXKKKAUCAhUNFBeg1GSxc2MA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Tue, 29 May 2018 10:27:54 +0200)
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> FWIW, I think its verbosity is RX's main *advantage*. It makes regular
> expressions so much easier to read that I stopped writing regex strings the
> moment I discovered RX.
The clearer representation of structure is not the same thing as
verbosity. rx does both, but they are not the same thing. We could
envision making the structure more or less equally clear without
making the patterns so long.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-30 3:24 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 [this message]
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
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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