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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: MEL - A *Real* Programmer
Keywords: Real Programmer, Hacker
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.082657.28368@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 08:26:57 GMT
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In article <10293@ubc-cs.UUCP> buckland@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
>In article <1283@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM> mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti) writes:
>>Just to add fuel to the fire, I think that using "i" (or any other single
>>letter name" for a variable is horrible practice.  Try searching for all
>>occasions of it in a function!
>No sweat, if you have an editor that can find the pattern 
>"non-alphabetic, followed by 'i', followed by non-alphabetic".

How does your editor know if the newline character preceding the line,
or the newline character following the line, is supposed to be regarded
as a "non-alphabetic" or not?  (Adjust this question as necessary for
other operating systems or file structures where a newline character
might not be the line separator.)
I've used a dozen editors that had search patterns including "beginning"
and/or "end" of line, but none that accepted an "or" operation on
line-break "or" character class, in a single search pattern.
No sweat, just ulcers.

-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC    diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
                                    (tkou02 is scheduled for demolition)
We steer like a sports car:  I use opinions; the company uses the rack.