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- Subject: [On-topic] Lua goes its own way [ Was: Off-topic received English rant
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:34:17 +0200
2016-03-14 23:00 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com>:
> Well, the primary intent of the match table was to provide a more
> familiar interface for people more used to Python re matching
Of all the motivations adduced for changing Lua, saying that
Python/Ruby/Perl/Scheme/JSON/Julia/Go etc does it that way
tends to be the one that impresses me least, even though I have
been guilty of it myself (to my everlasting and well-archived shame).
