Re: is this behavior correct?

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 20/06/2011 14.17, David Kastrup wrote:
> steve donovan<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>  writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Philippe Lhoste<PhiLho@gmx.net>  wrote:
> > > made a typo and intended to write stdout... (interpolated on the fly to "as
> > > a means to debug"!).
> >
> > Full regexps are not a means to debug ;)
> >
> > Despite my Irish roots, I'm not keen either on stout or regexps...
>
> St Patrick drove off the snakes from Ireland, and he probably would have
> taken to regexps as well, had they been around at that time.
Oh well, nowadays St.Patrick would probably have had a bad time, since 
PCRE-like regexps are way too common (more than snakes, anyway - at 
least in urban context :-)