f*cking re module

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Fri Jul 8 00:27:06 EDT 2005


Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> writes:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:47:54 -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
>> Oh, come on:  what's a Perliodic Table of Operators, between friends?
>> http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.html
> That, and the discussion on operators by Larry Wall, are two of the most
> scary things I've ever seen. Is there any possible sequence of bytes that
> will not be a valid Perl expression or operator?

Yes, but will it get as bad as TECO, where guessing what your name did
as a command sequence was a popular past time?

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