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On 12/19/2012 3:36 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/19/2012 9:26 AM, BGB wrote:
>> On 12/18/2012 8:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/15/2012 6:54 AM, Chris Uppal wrote:
>>>> Off-the-top-of-my-head (all classes and method are imaginary):
>>>>
>>>>      Regexp alpha = Regexp.fromList(java.lang.text.portable.Alphas);
>>>>      alpha = alpha.or('_');
>>>>      Regexp num = Regexp.fromList(java.lang.text.portable.Digits);
>>>>      Regexp alphanum = alpha.or(num);
>>>>      Regexp identifier = alpha.followedBy(alphanum.repeated());
>>>
>>> I think that is what is widely known in the .NET world
>>> as a fluent API.
>>>
>>
>> better term maybe than "big pile o' nasty...".
>>
>> yes, regex syntax could be nicer, but probably not by making it into a
>> big pile of API calls.
>
> It is very popular in some .NET circles.
>
> Surprisingly the Wikipedia article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface
> does not even cover .NET.
>

fair enough...

I have sometimes gone the other way though, finding a dedicated textual 
representation to be more compact and easier to work with than an API, 
but either way.

I guess it depends though...