Re: [boost] Syntactic sugar for regex

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-27 11:10:34

At 04:34 PM 7/26/2001, Darin Adler wrote:

 >I am a heavy user of perl, but I still think I prefer the more 
straitlaced
 >syntax:
 >
 >      replace_all(str, regexp("tru*"), "tru")
 >
 >to something like:
 >
 >     str << s/tru*/tru/g;

I would think that the more conventional syntax would benefit the largest 
number of users.

There is such a thing as syntax that is just too cute, and might end up 
being viewed as too esoteric and thus unsuited for the average user.

--Beman