Re: Regular expression creation [was: Re: Emacs Lisp's future]

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 19/09/2014 14:07 +0400, Alexis wrote:

> Hmm, good point .... Perhaps "!" could be the escape character? It seems
> to me like a character that might be less likely to need to be literally
> matched (or matched less frequently) than other visible ASCII
> characters, and also seems to me to be reasonably memorable for this
> purpose ....

It's meaning of "negate the following" is so widespread that it would be
confusing to use it.

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    Filipp