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Re: Three Suggestions
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Date: 
Sun, 29 Nov 1998 23:07:55 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
I agree that a PerlRE would be cool (and not really difficult to add), but
can you give some concrete examples of search queries which would benefit in
a major way from a feature like that?  I can see a bit of use in things like
coalescing Space Police I & II on-the-fly, but . . .

Right, that's why the :) -- it seemed like an obviously good idea at first,
but then I couldn't really think of many practical uses.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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(...) Is that a real :) or mostly a ;) ? I agree that a PerlRE would be cool (and not really difficult to add), but can you give some concrete examples of search queries which would benefit in a major way from a feature like that? I can see a bit of (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)

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