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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote: > I notice that in the OPs code and in your examples, the forward slash > is not used at all.... When you say above that "all the normal > delimiters [...]" .. but forward slashes `//' do not have special > meaning inside and would seem then to be ideal char for delimiters. > > Yet they seem to be carefully avoided. That is what I nearly always > use. Is there some reason to avoid `//' as delimiters? The reason that I didn't use forward^Wslashes is because I often use regular expressions with file system paths and usually end up with leaning toothpicks[1]. I'm more or less just experimenting with other delimiters so that I'll remember that I can when it's actually useful. :-X [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_toothpick_syndrome -- Brandon McCaig <http://www.bamccaig.com/> <bamccaig@gmail.com> V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. Vg qbrfa'g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl. Castopulence Software <http://www.castopulence.org/> <bamccaig@castopulence.org>Thread Previous | Thread Next