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Subject: Re: [xsl] Support for lookaround regexp in XSLT -- any time soon?
From: James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 19:51:51 +0100

ok I redact the unambiguous part ... was getting nostalgic.

though sometimes ... I do feel that we rush to specify in language
that machines understand first, personally I like the fireside chat
approach but acknowledge I wouldn't want to build a rocket ship with
this level of 'blueprint'.

J






On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> but I would argue that perl6
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>> https://github.com/perl6/specs/blob/master/S05-regex.pod
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>> does the best job at unambiguously defining ...
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> That's supposed to be unambiguous? It's a fireside chat, full of "Oh, and
> here's something else I thought I might mention".
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica


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