RE: [External] : Re: Ugly regexps

[Drew Adams]

> > And ERE isn't?
> 
> To be fair, extended regular expressions are the regular expressions
> flavor most commonly used in the contemporary world, recent/popular
> programming languages, etc.
> 
> So for a lot of people this won't be +1 thing to learn.

See my previous message.  It _will_ be a +1 to learn,
in the context of Emacs, if people have to also learn
the Elisp syntax anyway, for interactive use.

Any way you look at it, I think, if the Elisp regexp
syntax is what is used interactively (modulo extra
backslashing), then adding another syntax means that
using that other syntax is a +1 - extra learning.

Not that extra learning is necessarily bad... ;-)