Re: Feature request: plain option for gsub

[Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@...>]

Well, all I would suggest is adding a plain option to gsub. ;-)

But this has all derailed so I don't know what this thread is about anymore

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
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> On Friday, August 22, 2014, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 2014-08-22 23:31 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
>> >> F#ck it, let's just tear out the spaghetti 500 lines of C for patterns
>> >> and
>> >> hoist in LPeg.  It's a better hammer anyway :-)))
>> >
>> >   I know Roberto has been thinking along those lines.
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>> And was daunted [1] by the length of the LPeg code in relation
>> to all of the present standard library put together.
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>> [1] http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf
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> Adding LPeg would fundamentally change Lua and the prevailing meaning to the
> body of people that us it, which would grow significantly. In two ways, LPeg
> would be to Lua as regex is to Perl[1].
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> Those that eventually become classified as "those who use LPeg, with that
> cool Lua language added In there, for complicated patterns" will demand
> first class ranges and patterns. Then comes the standard library and the
> call for more sugar. Then cats will play nice with dogs. It will be
> crazy....
>
>
> -Andrew
>
> [1]: I remember near the end of my C class in... 93-94, my teacher telling
> us about Perl. He demonstrated the use of regex by removing all of the
> formatted footers from a long text document with what looked like about 60
> characters of line noise.