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Invisible escreveu:
> OK, so it's convenient to be able to say "foo*bar" and mean "any string
> that starts with 'foo' and ends with 'bar'". But by the time you've
> added 25 different special characters with a dense set of possible means
> such that you have an almost Turing-complete language, my reaction is
> "for God's sake, stop trying to encode the entire language grammar into
> a text string and go use a /real/ programming language!"
>
> FWIW, I dislike printf format strings for essentially the same reason...
you dislike DSLs, point taken.
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