On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 1:52:31 AM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wednesday 04 November 2015 18:21, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > > > What rurpy meant, was that regexes can surface to a computer user > > earlier than variables and branches; a user who does not go into the > > depth to actually program the machine, might still encounter them in a > > text editor or database engine. Even some web forms allow some limited > > form, like e.g. the DVD rental here or Google. > [...] > What *I* think that Rurpy means is that one can construct a mathematical > system based on pattern matching which is Turing complete, and therefore in > principle any problem you can solve using a program written in (say) Python, > C, Lisp, Smalltalk, etc, or execute on a CPU (or simulate in your head!) > could be written as a sufficiently complex regular expression.
No, Christian was correct. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
