Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

> "Sam and Acme use a simple, pure form of regular expressions. If they
> had the counting operations, this would be a trivial task, but to add
> them would open the door to the enormous, ill-conceived complexity of
> (no longer) regular expressions as the open source community thinks of
> them."
>
> So, if you want counting, you can always write a patch, who knows, it
> might even be accepted.
>
> But I think that anyone not under the influence of psychedelic
> substances that has suffered PCR, will agree we don't want to move in
> that direction, and even if small, counting is a step in that
> direction.
>
> I personally rarely have use for it, and when I do, it is trivial to
> write a script to generate the desired regexp, and I'm eternally
> grateful for being free from Perl-induced psychosis.
>
> uriel

Isn't it just easier to answer the questions? ...
this is just like bla... bla... bla...
sorry, but being such doesn't shed any light on the subject...
Ruda