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From: aoki@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
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Subject: regex in slocal [was: Summary: ELM vs. MH]
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Date: 10 Mar 91 06:46:19 GMT
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luj@Ecn.Purdue.Edu (Jun Lu) writes:
>[My comments(Jun's): MH's slocal is not smart enough to match a regexp.
>Neither can ELM's filter]

I've always sort of wondered why no one ever hacked regular expressions
into slocal, at least as an option.  It's especially odd considering
that there's already regex code lying around (e.g., pick).  Is there
a historical reason?  Has it been considered too expensive?
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