[slime-devel] Re: Clicky things in the REPL.

lawrence mitchell wence@gmx.li writes:

Meanwhile, I'll quote from Jamie Zawinski's gdb-highlight.el:

;; This code should be considered an example of how over-use of regular ;; expressions leads to code that is an unreadable, unmaintainable mess, ;; and why it's unfortunate that so much of emacs's speed depends on ;; their use, rather than on the use of more traditional parsers.

And try not to follow suite :P

He's said it better:

Sometimes a programmer, when faced with a problem, thinks "I know, I'll solve it with a regular expression". Now he has two problems.

A wise man. But if I ever meet him, I'm gonna punch him in the nose for all the time I've spent porting stuff to XEmacs ;-)

Cheers, Luke