Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> why would you want to do this?
> 
>   Why would one want to do pattern substitution?

No, why would you want to find anything that's a number, parse it, and 
add one to it. It doesn't seem like a particularly useful example. I'm 
sure the same techniques could be used to do something more useful, but 
I can't think of an example.

Anyway, I forget how we even got started on this topic, but this debate 
has gone on long enough to make a few things clear. It seems that 
low-level text munging is useful for the kind of stuff you do, and not 
especially useful for the kind of stuff I do. Let's leave it at that.

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