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Originally Posted by Chompy
"Changes should only be made because those changes will be useful." That's really productive, right...
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Yes, it is productive. If you add changes that aren't useful then by definition they'll seldom be used, and the time used to add them is wasted.
I'm guessing we agree and I just wasn't very clear in making my point. You wouldn't advocate adding feature X to GScript just because language Y has it, right?
The post I was replying to said exactly that:
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Originally Posted by Bubble13
There don't have to be any situations. It can be said that a scripting language really isn't complete without regular expressions.
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In other words, "even if nobody would ever use them, they should still be added because lots of other languages support them."