Re: regular expressions that match nothing

[philippe schnoebelen <schnoebelen.ph@gmail.com>]

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The (real) risk of misunderstanding exists with all options that include
"null", "empty", "void", "nothing", "nada". The name refers to a set of
matches but can be understood as qualifying the match itself, as a set of
chars. If you teach programming and mark code written by students, you know
that the confusion will definitely happen.

This is why I much prefer Alan's re-nomatch suggestion.

On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 09:33, Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> wrote:

> 19 maj 2019 kl. 07.00 skrev HaiJun Zhang <netjune@outlook.com>:
> >
> > > regexp-null? It's also a little cryptic, but it's short!
> >
> > What about regexp-nothing or re-nothing?
>
> Those are fair suggestions and close to the mathematical meaning, but
> could possibly be misunderstood as patterns (only) matching the empty
> string.
>
>
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