On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:52:42 +0100 "Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 10/11/06, Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > We also use space-delimited depend atoms everywhere else. It makes | > no sense to break that when a comma works equally well. | | I'm sorry, are you telling everyone that it's too difficult for you to | write an ungreedy regex that also tests for the possibility of a list | bounded by [ and ] being part of an atom?
We are not talking about us. We have access to a full parser that could very easily be told to handle spaces, backspaces, tabs and anything else you'd care to use. It can even go beyond the single lookahead element that's required here. No. We're talking about other developers and users who just want to do a quick script without having to care about all that. You know, not making design decisions that have no affect on the top 1% but that screw over significant parts of the remainder just for the sake of using a space over a comma. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13
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