Re: english names for symbolic SREs Michael Montague 27 Nov 2013 05:03 UTC

On 11/26/2013 5:27 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Michael Montague scripsit:
>
>> My opinion: SREs are a mutant love child of Scheme and Perl. To
>> understand them you need to understand Scheme and PCREs. You need to
>> remember what a bunch of characters like *+?= mean. Not fun. Too
>> much PCREs and not enough Scheme.
> That's why we are adding, at your request, English names for all the
> SRE patterns.
>

Please don't add English names for all the SRE patterns if I am the only
one that thinks this is a good idea.