... Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote: A few of years ago RMS asked me what one could do to make ELisp regular expressions more handable. Now, when the support for Perl REx in CPerl mode is finally finished, I think I know the answer: one needs to allow a special read syntax for regular expressions (the result being an ordinary ...

Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes: A few of years ago RMS asked me what one could do to make ELisp regular expressions more handable. Now, when the support for Perl REx in CPerl mode is finally finished, I think I know the answer: one needs to allow a special read syntax for regular expressions (the result being an ordinary string). This way one can avoid the...

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Ilya Zakharevich wrote: A few of years ago RMS asked me what one could do to make ELisp regular expressions more handable. Now, when the support for Perl REx in CPerl mode is finally finished, I think I know the answer: one needs to allow a special read syntax for regular expressions (the result being an ordinary string). This way one...

A few of years ago RMS asked me what one could do to make ELisp regular expressions more handable. Now, when the support for Perl REx in CPerl mode is finally finished, I think I know the answer: one needs to allow a special read syntax for regular expressions (the result being an ordinary string). This way one can avoid the acute backslashitis [by inverting \( and (, etc], the regular ...