From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam command language
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:16:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031007191642.3308.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b97cf5005ac1ff07062eb59326e4ec1b@plan9.bell-labs.com
| just what we need -- more characters to escape in regular expressions.
| if you're going to change anything, it makes more sense to sully ^ and $
| even further.
Alternatively, do what perl does: punctuation uses backslash
to turn the magic off, letters use punctuation to turn it on.
So \a and \z could be the end markers. You'd seldom type
that, so they're free to use.
next reply other threads:[~2003-10-07 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-07 19:16 Scott Schwartz [this message]
2003-10-07 19:20 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-08 8:37 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-08 15:42 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-09 8:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-09 9:18 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-09 15:01 ` rog
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-10 0:26 Dennis Ritchie
2003-10-07 8:58 steve.simon
2003-10-07 9:38 ` Axel Belinfante
2003-10-04 1:53 [9fans] Newbie: life without rio rob pike, esq.
2003-10-06 12:52 ` [9fans] sam command language rog
2003-10-06 15:08 ` Rob Pike
2003-10-06 15:55 ` Jim Choate
2003-10-06 16:35 ` Micah Stetson
2003-10-06 16:41 ` Rob Pike
2003-10-06 16:47 ` Micah Stetson
2003-10-06 18:24 ` boyd
2003-10-07 18:34 ` rog
2003-10-07 18:48 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-08 14:44 ` rog
2003-10-08 15:09 ` Jim Choate
2003-10-09 0:52 ` okamoto
2003-10-08 15:46 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-09 17:35 ` rog
2003-10-07 20:16 ` vdharani
2003-10-07 18:59 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-08 14:33 ` rog
2003-10-08 14:44 ` Derek Fawcus
2003-10-08 15:27 ` Dan Cross
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