Re^3: poll ideas quest 2009

[cog]

Allow me to rephrase that...

Regular expressions are:

• A sign that God exists
• What you need
• What makes Perl so strong
• Ergo, they think
• A sure way to get shot in the foot
• Line noise
• An abomination of nature

[moritz]

• A tool that turns one problem into two problems

... to paraphrase an old regex joke.

[jakobi]

[REGEX] A tool that turns one problem into two problems

which can be a very effective technique, as divide & conquer demonstrates :).

Peter, still trying to come to a stop on the slippery slope of shifting semantic levels

[ambrus]

This needs an “all of the above” option.