benniw

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   by benniw 12y ago

   Re "compatibility", I was thinking more about the language's library ecosystem, that could benefit from a single official regex implementation that can be relied upon and can be assumed to be known by programmers (when design
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   by benniw 12y ago

   "more memory and more overhead than e.g. splitting a string by simply scanning it." Regexes are simply scanning strings, they're just a more condensed syntax for specifying how the scanning should be done. And in interprete
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   by benniw 12y ago

   There are real benefits, they're called convenience and compatibility. And what's wrong with tying a language to a specific regex syntax? After all, you're also tying it top a specific outside-of-regexes syntax. Regexes are