From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-dev+bounces-17682-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1GY2lT-0001xK-Eu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:46:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9CFixEQ023387; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:44:59 GMT Received: from outmail.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9CFfPku020405 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:41:26 GMT Received: from snowdrop.home (unknown [62.6.163.66]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F1554B38 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:40:44 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:40:40 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42? Message-ID: <20061012164040.2ab6cad8@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <b38c6f4c0610120152w942f7f8q7194082f4ae944c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <51c6d3c5867563dbcdcc62370def11d0@myrddraal.demon.co.uk> <452D2BC9.5060207@gentoo.org> <15FCAB01-0915-4FB7-BD31-189212346F96@gentoo.org> <20061011194442.4c0bd8d9@snowdrop.home> <1160595003.10524.21.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20061011204619.0c58fdf1@snowdrop.home> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610111551180.1206@rutrow.coat.com> <20061011212633.30942d25@snowdrop.home> <b38c6f4c0610111408k61ee8effqb75e13665c94049d@mail.gmail.com> <20061011233447.2ee81aef@localhost> <b38c6f4c0610120152w942f7f8q7194082f4ae944c8@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.3 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_YxNLIk19J8u568.bkAYlDi_; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 240f4c17-7d0d-4b36-9e15-4181aeaab8ac X-Archives-Hash: db9baa09aa12aa44ab92b847fa8d627f --Sig_YxNLIk19J8u568.bkAYlDi_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:52:42 +0100 "Stuart Herbert" <stuart.herbert@gmail.com> wrote: | On 10/11/06, Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org> wrote: | > We also use space-delimited depend atoms everywhere else. It makes | > no sense to break that when a comma works equally well. |=20 | I'm sorry, are you telling everyone that it's too difficult for you to | write an ungreedy regex that also tests for the possibility of a list | bounded by [ and ] being part of an atom? We are not talking about us. We have access to a full parser that could very easily be told to handle spaces, backspaces, tabs and anything else you'd care to use. It can even go beyond the single lookahead element that's required here. No. We're talking about other developers and users who just want to do a quick script without having to care about all that. You know, not making design decisions that have no affect on the top 1% but that screw over significant parts of the remainder just for the sake of using a space over a comma. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=3D13 --Sig_YxNLIk19J8u568.bkAYlDi_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFLmH796zL6DUtXhERAuagAKDdPZJHcccGqQsZg50vekbrqQEJnQCdFhPR JRdAEqiH/H8OJSawZ47q6ag= =APj9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_YxNLIk19J8u568.bkAYlDi_-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list