It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
On 18/07/15 07:43 PM, Rena wrote:
Alternation would be great, but I think it's been discussed before and
it would add too much complexity to the implementation.
Why not add the whole patterns to... everything?
Why not? You have Lua. You have the source code. You probably even have
LPeg if you want.
Guess
what [a-%%] would do? It would match anything from 'a' to the '%' sign!
(which you can't currently do, because %% is a character class!)
It can't do that now because 'a' to '%' isn't a range. '%' is 37, 'a' is
97, so of course:
x = '%'
print(x:match"[a-%%]"))
fails. But if you do:
x = '%'
print(x:match"[%%-a]"))
it works.
You could argue that Lua should work if you specify a reverse
range, but that's a separate argument.
Way more powerful than Lua patterns and not that hard to write if you
have access to tail calls. I'd take it over Lua patterns anytime, even
if it is clunkier. We also wouldn't need "0-or-more" modifiers as you
would be able to just x?<mod>!
I can't wait to see your code!
-spc (No one's stopping you ... )
