----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dave Thomas <Dave / PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:24423] Re: Joys of eval


> "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> writes:
> 
> > That's very interesting. I had been thinking about
> > some ways to enhance regexes, but this is a new
> > technique to me.
> 
> An alternative approach is distributed as eregexp with Ruby.

It's called eregex.rb (no p) on my system.

Never noticed that one before.

matju's version seems a little more sophisticated to me.

I don't normally use giant regexes anyway... though if they
were easier to manage, I might use bigger ones.

Has anyone ever tried to produce static software metrics
for regular expressions? It might be amusing to quantify
their hairiness.

"I have complete confidence in this mission, Dave."

Hal