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- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.152610.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:26:10 GMT
- References: <REXXLIST%92090701303986@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> <MARTINC.92Sep7194107@grover.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <MARTINC.92Sep7194107@grover.cs.unc.edu>, martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- > I don't think this (rather dippy) analogy holds very well. If parse
- > were extended with a regular expression syntax that was a strict
- > extension -- that is, any program which didn't use the reg exp syntax to
- > get results isn't broken by the addition -- then we'd know that (a) you
- > can do anything you did before, and (b) that you could do neat new
- > things. It's like if someone started making screwdrivers out of a
- > material with a very high yield point, so that even if you were prying
- > up a trap door with an elephant on it the shaft would return to shape:
- > no one would notice that they were any different, except when they tried
- > to use them as prybars.
-
- And when they saw the price on the cash register. Your analogy doesn't hold,
- it's not like if someone started making these super-screwdrivers, it's like if
- a new law required that all screwdrivers be made this way. If you want to make
- your own 'REXXrg' language for your private use, I really have no objection.
- You *were* talking about changing the standard, weren't you?
-
- Eric
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