From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: guided tour suggestions Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 07:39:26 -0700 Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA Message-ID: <86abwjl4gx.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <200705031803.l43I3Yd29129@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178375988 24189 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2007 14:39:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 14:39:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 16:39:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HkLQJ-0003EE-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 16:39:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLX3-0008IR-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 10:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLWz-0008IA-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 10:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLWx-0008Hv-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 10:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLWx-0008Hs-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 10:46:39 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HkLQC-0002AK-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 10:39:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLQ6-0004AX-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 16:39:34 +0200 Original-Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 May 2007 16:39:34 +0200 Original-Received: from merlyn by blue.stonehenge.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 May 2007 16:39:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: blue.stonehenge.com x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.14.5.3; tzolkin = 1 Akbal; haab = 11 Uo User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KYi4AzTO20Q4jBrGYII9D41LkHY= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70566 Archived-At: >>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry writes: Karl> Second, this seems like an overstatement (Perl has quite a Karl> lot of regexp constructs): Karl> Emacs regexps support a superset of Perl's regexp constructs. Karl> As just one example, Emacs doesn't support negative lookahead. That statement was true in the Perl4 days (back over a decade ago). Perl5 added a huge pile of new features to regexen, and continues to make incremental changes on each new release (the upcoming 5.10 will have named captures, for example). Emacs regexps are comparable to regexps available in other widely-available languages and tools. This is a bit of a weaselword, since *everything* is "comparable". :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!