From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: modern regexes in emacs Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:29:39 +1100 Message-ID: References: <20180616123704.7123f6d7@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <87po0qs6re.fsf@gmail.com> <83r2c9m8yj.fsf@gnu.org> <17581DA9-7DCA-432E-A2E8-E5184DFA8B4B@acm.org> <20190215114728.0785e891@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20190215175405.GA5438@ACM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="163052"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 19 14:22:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gw5Lj-000gGt-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gw5Li-00039s-SP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:22:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gw5Jk-0002SM-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gw5Je-0007Tk-P2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37428 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gw5Je-0007QS-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gw5JZ-000dT7-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:20:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:0HeX48AWMH1aXZMFj6SEV5btnOY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233453 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I much prefer the |(){} syntax over the current \|\(\)\{\}. Me too, I prefer the shorter syntax. A use case is for lightening the cognitive load on a source code auditor. > This said, such a switch would probably be rather painful. > It probably make sense to do it at the same time we switch to > Scheme/CommonLisp/Agda. (2038) -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "What's so strange when you know that you're a Wizard at 3?" -Joni Mitchell