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Ad absurdum - what do you think is easier to memorize - a story (eg The Iliad) or an equivalently explanatory regular expression?
by hobs 5y ago
Ad absurdum - what do you think is easier to memorize - a story (eg The Iliad) or an equivalently explanatory regular expression?
- mcdonje 5y agoJust trying to get an apples to apples comparison. He's using a relatively involved problem to say regex is difficult to parse. But the alternatives are libraries that hide the complexity, or large code blocks if you're rolling your own.