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I was honestly expecting it to be mostly black magic, but it looks like the meat of the project is a bunch of (surely hard won) regexes. Nifty.
by fbdab103 2y ago
I was honestly expecting it to be mostly black magic, but it looks like the meat of the project is a bunch of (surely hard won) regexes. Nifty.
- nyokodo 2y ago> I was … expecting it to be mostly black magic, but … the meat of the project is a bunch of … regexes Wait, regexes are the epitome of black magic. What do you consider as black magic?
- fbdab103 2y agoMacros? Any situation where code edits other code? Sure, I could not write a regex engine, but the language itself can be fine if you keep it to straightfoward stuff. Unlike the famous e-mail parsing regex.