Quote #148

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)

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  1. I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
  2. (To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cu…
  3. 'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
  4. Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-)
  5. That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns... :-)
  6. You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so. :-)
  7. That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
  8. There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.

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