Re: PatternMatching symbol for magic characters :-)

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Subject: Re: PatternMatching symbol for magic characters :-)
From: "voidptr69@..." <voidptr69@...>
Date: 2015年6月15日 10:26:11 -0400

I suggested "m" for is magic reference, also I never saw "m" used in any other "magic" utilization, (printf, pattern etc...)

:-)

On 2015年06月14日 10:59 PM, Brigham Toskin wrote:

[I suppose it doesn't even have to be m/M. Anything easy to remember will do, if there's a specific reason not to use any particular letter.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Mike Nelson <mikestar1313@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6/12/2015 8:49 AM, Brigham Toskin wrote:

Oh, I rather like that. Is there any particular case someone can think of where this is likely to break a lot of code?

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

2015年06月11日 22:15 GMT+02:00 voidptr69@hotmail.com <voidptr69@hotmail.com>:
> so here my suggestion ...
>
> Can we have a "%m" symbol representing lua "magic" characters set ?
> basically this "^$()%.[]*+-?"

This is quite a nice idea, especially since then %M will mean "any non-magic
character".

--

Brigham Toskin

The only cases that would break existing is code is code that relies on formats of %m or %M being errors. Is such code at all common?

-- Mike Nelson

Brigham Toskin