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In article <MWM.90Mar16132806@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes:
>In article <10210@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>This should go on my 1.4 (1.5? 2.0?) wish list - that all standard
>commands that might want to deal with patterns accept the same regular
>expression language, and that filename wildcarding match that. 

That's an excellent idea, something that will hopefully be real easy for
anyone writing a program as long as the pattern matching routines are
available as a function call.  There should be no excuse on any machine
for 4 or 5 different and possibly contradictory ways of doing the same
very simple operation.

>It'd also be nice if the '#' operator moved to behind the expression 	where
>it belongs, but that's a minor nit.

I wondered about that one too, first.  But it does make the language more
orthogonal; this way, all unary operators are post-fix.  Most people are 
uncomfortable with quote or negation operators as pre-fix, and won't be
bothered by # being where it is, even if it's not exactly what a mathematician
would expect.

>	<mike



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