On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:28 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > Note: âIn other words, the "|" operator is never greedy.â > > Note the need to inject the high-brow jargon âgreedyâ here as a > latch on sentence.
The first definition of "jargon" in the Collaborative International Dictionary of English is: "To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner." Despite your misuse of the word "jargon", jargon seems to be an area in which you are carving yourself a niche. The term "greedy" has a particular meaning in regex, as does the word "algorithm" in computer science. Take a look at Mastering Regular Expressions for an exhaustive discussion of the meaning of "greedy" as it applies to regular expressions. Of course I anticipate that you will confusedly and unintelligibly bash this book, even though it is quite obvious that you have yet to read or understand it. -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
