[Novalug] for the love of regex && syntax hightlighting was Re: Lack of love

jerry w jerrywone at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 08:32:49 EDT 2009


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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:46 PM, American Dave <novalug at soupy.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:38:49PM -0400, The Doctor wrote:
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>> American Dave wrote:
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>> > Disagreed.  Syntax highlighting can help you find a missing curly brace
>> > instantly.  Even more helpful is seeing what's interpolated, not
>> > just in quotes, but in things like regex's.
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>> I prefer using '%' for that, but if it works for you go for it.
>
> % doesn't help in that regard as much when writing Python.
>
> Highlighting is completely subjective, of course.
>
> -A. Dave
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