Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id q12LYoAn017541 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:34:51 +0100 Received: (qmail 2760 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2012 21:34:45 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Feb 2012 21:34:45 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx064) with SMTP; 02 Feb 2012 22:34:45 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q12LW6pi022244 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:32:06 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q12LVFm9005897; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:32:05 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 2079087 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:27:24 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q12LROwQ029595 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:27:24 +0100 Received: from anchor-msapost-1.mail.demon.net (anchor-msapost-1.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.164]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q12LR9cf015803 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:27:13 +0100 Received: from cremornelane.demon.co.uk ([80.177.25.195] helo=palladium.local) by anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net with esmtpsa (AUTH morningstar2) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) id 1Rt4BR-0005tV-iD for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:27:09 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20120202102957.GB14566@csmvddesktop> <4F2A68F9.1010508@morningstar2.co.uk> <20120202111808.GA15304@csmvddesktop> <4F2AC338.2060505@residenset.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4F2AFFAD.6070504@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:27:09 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: Mapping Functions Versions for All and Some To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Sender is in whitelist: joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK); Detail=5D7Q89H36p4L00VTXC6D4q0N+AH0PUCnBi0P5cROEGjO+pG7NAH/K+tf9SrVFtpLrKONl 2T9EL4W4U4jgzLbnCcGpk1z/zwmKT/K1fv3lD0=V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 7011 On 02/02/2012 18:35, Bruno Le Floch wrote: >> My preference is for "regexp", but I can see it might by now be a bit >> awkward to change it. > > My original argument in favor of regex (besides the fact that > Wikipedia's regex(p|) page uses that and that it's shorter) is that it > matches nicely with (La|)TeX. Before I planned to include it in > LaTeX3, I thought of calling the package ReGeX. :-) In TeX parlance, it would be regexpr (think \numexpr, etc.), which for me is too long. So I favour regex. -- Joseph Wright