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Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp
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tomas |
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Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp |
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Thu, 9 Sep 2021 08:52:41 +0200 |
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:11:00PM +0200, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
> > The reason I use rx in a lot of my scripts is that I can add comments,
> > explanations, formatting, etc. when it gets complicated. I think that is
> > a significant advantage, that even raw strings wouldn't have (unless a
> > comment syntax were to be added into the regular expression language,
> > which is unlikely).
>
> Perl has this:
>
> perl -e '$foo = "bar"; print "yes" if $foo =~ / bar # comment /x;'
Yes, Perl's "extended" regexps. They are very handy for when the concise
language is too cunfusing.
I'd tend to the position that this "ecological niche" is already (very
well) covered by `rx'. But I am aware that this is a very subjective
topic :)
Cheers
- t
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- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, (continued)
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Mattias Engdegård, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp,
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- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, tomas, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, tomas, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Mattias Engdegård, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Mattias Engdegård, 2021/09/09
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