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<HR><H2>[COLD] Re: regexps</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Mar 25 10:18:13 1996
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To: coldstuff@cold.org
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:05:50 -0600
From: Zachary DeAquila &lt;zachary@zachs.place.org&gt;


As I recall, one of the big problems Greg faced when choosing how to
implement regexps was to find a way to easily implement MOO-style
'incomplete command' expressions.  In MOO, you canhave a verb
'foob*ar' that will match foob, fooba and foobar.  How does one
construct this with a perl regexp?  hrmm... 'foob|fooba|foobar' 
ew.  So.... whatever the choice, this functional requirement must
be kept in mind...

 --Zachary

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