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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: DSLs in perl and python (Was sobering observation)
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On 17/03/2016 17:47, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 10:09:27 PM UTC+5:30, Charles T. Smith wrote:
>> or something else ... you're in a "defend python at all costs!" mode.
> So now my questions:
>
> How do you in perl make regexps readable like python's VERBOSE?
> Can you do better in perl?
>

I neither know, nor do I care.  Why not ask on a perl list?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence