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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:19:01 -0500
Subject: Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive.
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Duncan Booth
<duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> The problem with your idea is that it breaks compatability with other non-
> Python regular expression engines. Python didn't invent the (?...) syntax,
> it originated with Perl.
>
> Try complaining to a Perl group instead.

The Perl folks didn't like it either:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules

-- Devin