From: Darren New
Subject: Regular Expression comment
Date: 1 May 2008 11:43:12
Message: <4819e510$1@news.povray.org>
... seen on another newsgroup:
"You have to admit that when the documentation of a feature in your
regular expression engine is more difficult to read than the regular
expression you're documenting, you've probably done something wrong."
Thought Andrew might be amused...
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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Regular Expression comment
Date: 1 May 2008 12:00:56
Message: <4819e938$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> > "You have to admit that when the documentation of a feature in your > regular expression engine is more difficult to read than the regular > expression you're documenting, you've probably done something wrong.">
Well said.
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Regular Expression comment
Date: 2 May 2008 00:33:57
Message: <481a99b5@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 01 May 2008 08:43:12 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> ... seen on another newsgroup:> > "You have to admit that when the documentation of a feature in your> regular expression engine is more difficult to read than the regular> expression you're documenting, you've probably done something wrong."> > Thought Andrew might be amused...
Good one. :-)
Jim
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