Regular Expressions

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Originally Posted by Chompy

"Changes should only be made because those changes will be useful." That's really productive, right...

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:

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.

In other words, "even if nobody would ever use them, they should still be added because lots of other languages support them."