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Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive.

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From Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:28:27 -0500
Subject Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive.
To Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> In particular i find the "extension notation" syntax to be woefully
> inadequate. You should be able to infer the action of the extension
> syntax intuitively, simply from looking at its signature.

This is nice in theory. I see no reason to believe this is possible,
or that your syntax is closer to this ideal than the existing syntax.

Perhaps you should perform some experiments to prove intuitiveness?
Science is more convincing than insults.

Also, the "!" in negative assertions doesn't stand for "not equal" --
matches aren't equality. It stands for "not". It's the "=" that's a
misnomer.

-- Devin

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PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 09:16 -0800
  Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 09:33 -0800
  Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-25 19:32 +0000
    Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 18:19 -0500
  Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 13:17 -0700
    Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 13:19 -0800
      Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-25 21:41 +0000
        Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 14:26 -0800
      Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 16:36 -0700
        Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 16:14 -0800
          Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 01:58 +0000
          Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 21:24 -0500
            Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 20:21 -0800
          Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Evan Driscoll <edriscoll@wisc.edu> - 2012-01-25 23:38 -0600
    Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 05:28 +0000
  Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-25 15:33 -0500
  Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 18:28 -0500
    Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 15:44 -0800
      Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 05:28 +0000
  Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 01:54 +0000
    Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 19:05 -0700

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