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Same here. I wonder when we stop calling these "regular expressions" and start calling them "parsing expressions"?

• zokier 10y ago
  Perl6 already has taken steps towards that direction, they have "rules" and "grammars", although I also see that they still call regexes regex but try to avoid the term "regular expression" > This document summarizes Apocalypse 5, which is about the new regex syntax. We now try to call them regex rather than "regular expressions" because they haven't been regular expressions for a long time, and we think the popular term "regex" is in the process of becoming a technical term with a precise meaning of: "something you do pattern matching with, kinda like a regular expression". On the other hand, one of the purposes of the redesign is to make portions of our patterns more amenable to analysis under traditional regular expression and parser semantics, and that involves making careful distinctions between which parts of our patterns and grammars are to be treated as declarative, and which parts as procedural. > In any case, when referring to recursive patterns within a grammar, the terms rule and token are generally preferred over regex. https://design.perl6.org/S05.html https://design.perl6.org/S05.html Of course it is not surprising that Perl community is pushing the envelope for regex...