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Only simple ones. How else would you write / edit regular expressions? *confused face*
The quality of beards does rather depend on the qualities of the wearer.
But there does seem to be a societal presumption against them at the moment, so I'm voting GOOD, in order to even things up.
But there does seem to be a societal presumption against them at the moment, so I'm voting GOOD, in order to even things up.
Ergh?
If nothing else, the ability to take an existing regex written by someone else years ago, dump it into the program and have it show it as a tree structure makes it staggeringly easier to debug.
If nothing else, the ability to take an existing regex written by someone else years ago, dump it into the program and have it show it as a tree structure makes it staggeringly easier to debug.
I don't like GUIs / fluffy hand holding programs. I'm prepared to believe this is an irrational prejudice and actually this is a much easier way to deal with regex. Then again, if it isn't BBC BASIC I think it's too fluffy and modern ;-)
I started with a BBC B, back in 1983 (I think). Lovely piece of kit.
And I am _so_ not coding in anything other than a lovely IDE. And the thought of going back to actually remembering what method names are called fills me with horror.
And I am _so_ not coding in anything other than a lovely IDE. And the thought of going back to actually remembering what method names are called fills me with horror.
I'd also say "Ergh", but because "[o]ur goal is to make Expresso the best .NET regular expression development tool on the planet" makes it rather pointless for me and their "it's free but we will nag you until you give us your email address" thing would a bit grumpy-making if I were going to install it.
(There's probably more than a little "in my day we wrote our regexps uphill in the snow both ways and we LIKED it", as well.)
(There's probably more than a little "in my day we wrote our regexps uphill in the snow both ways and we LIKED it", as well.)
I have said a couple of times that as there are a relatively small number of people in this world capable of growing facial hair, and as facial hair is so awesome, it is the moral imperative for everyone capable of growing it, to do so. That way I'm surrounded by as much awesome and varied facial foliage as possible.
And of course, the world is all about me.
And of course, the world is all about me.
That's entirely understandable - if you're writing in Perl then it's much less use to you.
Beards: Depends on the beard and the face it's attached to. Neck beards are almost always bad, and beard with no mustache are generally inadvisable. :)
Regex: Not sure, as I've never actually worked with them and am not 100% clear on what they are and what they're used for. :)
Regex: Not sure, as I've never actually worked with them and am not 100% clear on what they are and what they're used for. :)
Jeffrey Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions is a must-read if you're working with them. You could try the valid email address matcher at the end with the GUI programme ;-)
I said editing regexes is crazy, but only because I find them so unreadable that I would prefer to get the plain English translation of what it's meant to do and then rewrite the damn thing from scratch.
You know about the extended flag, right? It means you can add whitespace and comments to a regex, so you can have something like:
$regex = '@
\s+ # match some initial whitespace
( \w+ ) # capture the first word
@';
and so on.
$regex = '@
\s+ # match some initial whitespace
( \w+ ) # capture the first word
@';
and so on.
What do you think the chances of any of the regexes I'm bumping into have used that are?
Is there such a thing as a lovely IDE? I've yet to find one that doesn't fail on totally basic text editing UI or have a crapton of fiddly buttons with totally mysterious icons. In other words, they all look too much like KDE!
Heh, any I write that are longer than a dozen characters or a bit hairy I explode like that. Because I know I'll need to understand them in 6 months' time.
*insert rant about shoddy coders here*
*insert rant about shoddy coders here*
Visual Studio is lovely. Works fine for basic typing, while also allowing me to press a button and go direct to the source of a method call, debug things really nicely, underlining errors, completing variable names, and refactoring code nicely.
Beards: good but I find them too scratchy on myself. I also start to find I want to wash my face after every meal.
Name correction: depends on the place and my current mood. Sometimes I ignore and feel annoyed. Sometimes I correct. When the same person gets it wrong several times I start to give up and consider them to be a cretin. This is especially true when they spell it wrong in emails, which are *replies to my emails which have my name in*.
Name correction: depends on the place and my current mood. Sometimes I ignore and feel annoyed. Sometimes I correct. When the same person gets it wrong several times I start to give up and consider them to be a cretin. This is especially true when they spell it wrong in emails, which are *replies to my emails which have my name in*.
Haven't tried it, as don't feel like spending that much on something like that.
I've tried Eclipse and NetBeans and they're both dire.
I've tried Eclipse and NetBeans and they're both dire.
I find that goatee like beards occasionally look good, but other than that - no!
Have you looked at crimson editor? It reformats all my korn shelland PL SQL. Stuff with pretty colours.
Not completely true cos I do vaguely know what a regular expression is (mostly because Rob owns this shirt and periodically has to explain it to people. But I wouldn't know how to edit one.
When it comes to the "beards" question are we talking about facial hair or people like Katie Holmes/Jada Pinkit Smith/Kelly Preston?
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