Re: A curious logic

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:50:11AM -0500, Perl Diety wrote:
>      "...are easy and IMO, not interesting..." 
> 
> juxtapositioned with 
> 
>      ", but I never found one..."
> 
> Vern or Vernette, doesn't this imply that either:
> 
>     (a) You didn't look very hard, since being easy, they should also
> be easy to find
> 
> or
> 
>    (b) They are not so easy?

or

   (c) you quoted out of context and misunderstood the original post.


"...regexes that match themselves _and also other strings_ are easy and
IMO, not interesting..." [my emph]

"...I was looking for a regex matching itself - _and nothing but itself_,
... but I never found one." [my emph]


The two phrases which you quoted are describing _different_ classes of
regular expressions.


Ronald