[PYTHON META-SIG] RFC: TEXT-SIG

[Greg Stein]

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>From: 	Barry A. Warsaw[SMTP:bwarsaw@anthem.cnri.reston.va.us]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, December 03, 1996 8:21 AM
>To: 	Greg Stein
>Cc: 	'meta-sig@python.org'; 'friedric@rose.rsoc.rockwell.com';
>'kpyee@aw.sgi.com'
>Subject: 	RE: [PYTHON META-SIG] RFC: TEXT-SIG

>My vote would be no.  I'm all for starting an IR-SIG or some such at a
>later date, but I think this sig should concentrate on improving the
>language's intrinsic string manipulation features.  I think it's
>primary goal should be a new regular expression module with secondary
>issues such as string interpolation open for discussion.  I think
>those are going to be big and tough enough, but with large potential
>of payoff.
>
>Keeping the sig's mission as focussed as possible increases the
>chances of it's success.  I think that's the model we've come to favor
>with the SIGs.
>
>Given this view, maybe TEXT-SIG isn't the best name for it.  What
>about STRING-SIG or REGEX-SIG?

No problem with me... if that's the focus, then I'd call it string-sig.

I think the easiest way to determine what the focus actually is, is to
ask the people who are planning to be involved over the next 3 months,
"What do you want to contribute?" (talk is cheap :-). If the
contributors never say free-text search... out it goes!

That should keep the sig tightly focused and should keep it matched up
with what people will actually be doing.

-g

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Greg Stein, Microsoft Corporation            execfile("disclaimer.py")

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