POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Mini-languages : Re: Mini-languages Server Time
3 Sep 2024 23:25:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mini-languages  
From: Warp
Date: 10 Nov 2010 10:28:52
Message: <4cdaba34@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 09/11/2010 10:11 PM, Warp wrote:

> >    *Using* a parser library for something which can be easily expressed with
> > a regexp string would be complete overkill.

> Yeah, that's true. Writing

>    string "foo"
>    many char
>    string "bar"

> is drastically harder than just saying "foo*bar".

> Oh, wait...

  Nice straw man. (And "foo*bar" still doesn't mean what you think it means
as a regex.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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