Hi, Norman, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:06 PM, <n...@dad.org> wrote:
> My colleague Jeff Rothenberg and I, retirees, have developed an alternative to > using regular expressions for searching for (and optionally replacing) > patterns in text. I admit that I am becoming somewhat cautious by reading about "an alternative" to one of the best researched and understood parts of the theory of computer science, namely regular expressions. We know exactly, how powerful regexes are. And we also know exactly, what they can't do. Regarding your work, we don't even know how it would look like. Because, frankly, docs are quite sparse. And, what I found (SimpleExamples.java) looks to me more like a different API to creating regexes, rather than an alternative. And, why bother about that? I never felt it to be painful to specify a regex in text. Did so as a Perl programmer, as an Apache programmer (initially with Oro, and the like) and nowadays as a Java programmer. Sorry, but unless you come up with compelling reasons, I am -0 to -1. Jochen -- The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!" http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/evolution-of-the-wheel-300x85.jpg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
