Re: Usage of Shivers' SRE regular expression notation

[lord@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord)]

    Tom> Finally, let me add that a little bit of Emacs bigotry.  I
    Tom> navigate and edit my SREs using emacs s-exp navigation and edit
    Tom> commands.

    Emacs navigates group nesting in string regexps just fine.


No it can't.  (Consider regexps containing character sets like
"[]abc]".)

A lot of what we agree about could be summed up as "economy of
concepts and mechanisms".  Given the idea of an s-exp, and a mechanism
for manipulating them, it just plain "works out nicely" to use that
idea and those mechanisms for every problem they're isomorphic too.

But contrary to that, another point we both agree about, is that
infix, punctuation-heavy, domain-specific syntaxes have their place.

-t