part of why regexes feel like dark magic to a lot of people is that they look like symbol vomit. you could probably make them a lot more usable if you made them more verbose... somehow made it easier to insert nonsignificant whitespace and comments...

ooh, maybe you could package it in a nifty little functional programming style syntax and extend its functionality a little bit...

wait, i just invented parser combinators again

Follow

@hy lots of languages have parser combinator libraries, if that's what you mean! haskell's parsec is arguably the most famous

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Awoo Space

Awoo.space is a Mastodon instance where members can rely on a team of moderators to help resolve conflict, and limits federation with other instances using a specific access list to minimize abuse.

While mature content is allowed here, we strongly believe in being able to choose to engage with content on your own terms, so please make sure to put mature and potentially sensitive content behind the CW feature with enough description that people know what it's about.

Before signing up, please read our community guidelines. While it's a very broad swath of topics it covers, please do your best! We believe that as long as you're putting forth genuine effort to limit harm you might cause – even if you haven't read the document – you'll be okay!