
4 Dec
2009
4 Dec
'09
5:51 a.m.
Rob Riggs wrote:
It's hard enough to master regular expression -- mastering a new, C++-specific DSL for regexes is just brain damage.
Perhaps it's just me, but I find the Xpressive DSL much easier to work with than Perl-style expressions, especially when trying to figure out what someone else's regex actually does. But I think that just adds to the point -- Regex and Xpressive are quite different. --Jeffrey Bosboom