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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:02:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a17b0606b4a3df6390d48c090616f288@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00810251535i7c27be62g2455acd6c9888b2a@mail.gmail.com>

> ...I have started to like to use as few tools as
> possible.

I entirely agree, there is too much to learn and you have to be selective;
however my selection is: sed, awk, C and sam (for impromptu, well, editing).

I cannot really comment directly on gready operators, I have never
knowingly used a system that provided them, and I have never found myself
needing features that Plan9's RE don't have.

Perhaps its a lack of vision on my part.

It is probably possible visualise problems that would be solved
much more simply on Plan9 than on Linux/BSD/etc. The bottom line
is that the designers of Plan9 took a different approach
to REs and as a result the systems are different.

-Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 18:58 Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-23 19:05 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24  8:08   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 12:23     ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24 16:11       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 16:54         ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24 17:02         ` John Stalker
2008-10-24 17:15           ` Rob Pike
2008-10-24 17:41           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 18:01             ` Russ Cox
2008-10-24 19:56               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 21:10                 ` Russ Cox
2008-10-24 21:40                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 21:47                     ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24 22:04                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 22:38                         ` Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave
2008-10-24 22:54                         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-24 22:59                           ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-24 23:52                         ` Tom Simons
2008-10-25 22:35                           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-25 23:02                             ` Steve Simon [this message]
2008-10-26  8:57                             ` John Stalker
2008-10-26 18:36                               ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27  4:55                             ` Russ Cox
2008-10-27  8:28                               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-27 10:18                               ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-27 13:13                                 ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 13:23                                   ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-27 19:42                                     ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 16:13                                   ` Brian L. Stuart
2008-11-30  8:29                             ` Yard Ape
2008-12-11 16:32                               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 18:02             ` John Stalker
2008-10-24 17:10         ` Uriel
2008-10-24 19:56         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-24 19:56           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-26 21:23             ` Rob Pike
2008-10-24 11:27 Aharon Robbins
2008-10-27 19:23 Aharon Robbins
2008-10-27 20:15 ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 20:00 Eris Discordia
2008-10-28 14:51 ` Brian L. Stuart
2008-10-28 15:07   ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 21:08 Aharon Robbins
2008-10-28 14:53 ` Eris Discordia

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