Is it bad etiquette to reply to myself? I thought it might be useful to compare the proposed syntax with that of other languages with good regex support.
I tried all the examples from my previous message in Perl, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. All but Python have literal regex syntax, while Python has a raw string format that is generally used for regular expressions. All but JavaScript have multiple quote characters which allowed me to use double quotes just like Clojure: Clojure: #"foo" Perl: m"foo" (although m/foo/ or just /foo/ is more common) Python: r"foo" (you can also use r'foo' or r"""foo""") Ruby: %r"foo" (or %r/foo/ or just /foo/) JS: /foo/ All the examples for the proposed new Clojure syntax work the same in all these languages (with the exception of example 4 in JavaScript, where \a means a plain letter a instead of ASCII 7). If instead you escape things the way you currently have to in Clojure, many of the expressions don't work or mean something different in the other languages. In other words, under the proposed syntax Clojure regex literals would be less surprising for people used to any of these other languages. --Chouser --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
