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Date:         Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:45:57 +0100
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From: Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach@LATEX-PROJECT.ORG>
Subject: Re: Mapping Functions Versions for All and Some
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Am 02.02.2012 22:27, schrieb Joseph Wright:
> 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.

for what it is worth I also prefer regex

frank