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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-17 03:15]:
> On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:44 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> >>I could go on, getting in to the sorts of hate that Perl
> >>enables - s;foo;bar; anyone?
>
> >That's annoying, but do you find the following pretty?
>
> > s/^file:\/\/\/?//
>
> Neither is acceptable.
>
> It should be something like
>
> string.replace("^file:///?","";);
>
> Or maybe
>
> string replace: '^file:///?' with: ''.
>
> Or even
>
> (ask string replace '"^file:///?"; nil)
Whatever you think the substitution API should be (and I'm not
a huge fan of Perl's), putting patterns into simple string
literals is hateful.
Firstly, you end up doubling every backslash. I *can* juggle
layers of quoting in my head, better than most people I know
actually, but that doesn't mean it's a favourite pastime of mine.
Regular expressions are a language in their own right; they
should at least have their own kind of literal. Even Perl 5 is
not consistent enough in this regard.
Secondly, quotes are so frequently part of a pattern that using
them as delimiters for patterns is even worse than using forward
slashes; backslashes galore.
I generally use bangs.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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