Reability: the more you read a language, the more you can read it. And saying Python is super readable can have a look at how BSON is dealt with in the MongoDB driver. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/tree/master/bson
Now go check the same in MongoTalk. Where you can actually understand what it does and how it works. Without having to resort to C code every once in a while. Check some Perl code from a few years ago and come back with terseness and readability arguments. Yeah, sure. Phil On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dtto as above. Readability was never a question. And if it was, then you >> just doubled the regex complexity, and made the code more confusing by >> turning the problem upside down, due to the limited API. > > > Complaining about the compact syntax makes as much sense as complaining >> that `1+2` is too cryptic and should be written as `1 digitAdd: 2` (which >> you can do btw); the point of compactness is that when you know what you >> are doing you can save some time. >> >> Typing speed is pretty much the 1000th reason for a slow down, 1th is the > ability to understand code, at least for me. > > Ruby is a more flexible and better designed language, but I would pick > python any day over it which by the way beats even Pharo in readability > because of its culture on how to write APIs. > > On the subject of your issue, this is no work around I offered, this is > standard regex syntax. Exclusion and combination of matches. Nothing > special. > > I am using regex to parse python code, in pharo, for me at least Pharo > regex API rocks. >
