On May 10, Peter Scott said:
>At 09:29 AM 5/10/2001 -0400, Kevin Meltzer wrote:
>>On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:17:30AM -0400, Jeff Pinyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>spew-ed forth:
>> > On May 10, Crandell, Daniel (TIFPC) said:
>> >
>> > >Same situation here on this end. Buy oreilly book, "mastering regular
>> > >expressions" 34.95 barnes and noble, it has picture of the owl.
>> >
>> > *THAT* is the reason I am writing my book. J. Friedl is not going to be
>> > working on the second edition of that book,
>
>Really? I recall a message from him to p5p several months ago when he said
>that he was. Where did you see that that's no longer true?
This past weekend. I heard it from reputable sources at perlmonks.org.
>Totally agree. The new features in Perl regexen in the last four years
>fall almost totally into the categories either of hard-to-understand
>advanced features, or features which are unusual for regular expressions
>and hard to understand in the generally-understood context of how a regular
>expression engine ought to work.
Perl's regular expressions are, by definition, NOT regular. That makes
them difficult for hard-core awk'ers or grep'ers, I think.
Also, a lot of the features Friedl wished for in that book are now in
Perl, such as the "possessive" modifiers (the (?> ... ) assertion, which
doesn't allow backtracking), and the look-behind assertions.
>I'm looking forward to your new book, Jeff.
(Me too.)
No publisher yet, but I'd be happy to see O'Reilly swoop down upon me. :)
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