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Old 01-22-2010, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Skyld View Post
No. Regular expressions are a fantastic way to make code harder to edit and understand (a lot of scripters manage to make things terribly overcomplicated as it is without them!), especially for newer people who will take one look at a regular expression and not know what it is, little less what to do with it. Let's focus on functions that make gscript easier, perhaps.
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.
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