God forbid we have a useful feature that not everybody can use. God forbid people who don't know how to use something...oh, I don't know, not use it.

I have at least one useful feature in mind where regular expressions would be invaluable, and I'm not the only one. So basically, we can **** off because there are a lot of idiots who want to script on Graal? Sounds reasonable.

This is such a silly debate. People will have trouble with any feature they don't understand, it's no reason to not add something. From what others have said, it doesn't sound like it would be hard to add, either.

Regex is in a whole other class of difficulty, imho. I've considered learning regex before but I'm intimidated and haven't encountered a need to learn it yet. :(

The only time I think I've ever needed regex was with getstringkeys(). Those instances are few and far between though, and I don't even remember them. Would I have loved to be able to use regex in the few times I actually needed it? Hell yes. Do I really think it's needed? Not really. It's just not something I see being used too much to justify the effort of adding it. Now that can be said about a lot of things, but I feel this is one of those additions that everyone gets all giddy over and then they get it and don't know what the **** they actually want to do with it, and forgets about it. However, if there were any regex added, a very simple form of it would suffice. At least, if not regex then a rip-off wildcard system that format uses(%s, %d, and so on). Anything more complicated would definitely not be used in my opinion.

GScript2 is a game scripting language though, and it's not really needed at all in game server development.

The only way I can really see this getting implemented is if Stefan finds that he needs it one day, until then it'll be low on priorities as far as adding features/functions to GScript2 goes.

That alone would make me an extremely happy scripter.

Even *** scripting has a regexp lookalike and people use it literally all the time!!

Who cares about WoW, it sucks.

Anyways, I'm for what Dusty suggested. I don't see how that would be unreasonable.

Literally millions of people who do not care about Graal?

if WoW sucks, what does Graal do?

Not here to argue how much WoW sucks.

Only to argue that we need to copy its features?

Yes, because WoW invented this and was the first to ever, ever use it. Yes, we'll be copying WoW. Make's perfect sense. I see it now. Oh, woe is me, we'll be copying WoW. I should have known, even though I had no idea that WoW had such or feature nor would I care, nor does WoW have anything to do with it. I should have known I'd be trying to copy WoW! You, sir, have slain me!

why do you keep 'sensoring' the letters 'WoW'..

Blizzard didn't invent Lua's pattern system.


It's not allowed to discuss other MMORPGs.