RE: limits of regular expressions

+1

pvb
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [SMTP:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com]
> Sent:	Friday, August 23, 2002 10:21 AM
> To:	Colin Mackenzie
> Cc:	Rainer Becker; xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject:	RE: limits of regular expressions
> 
> I think this discussion is leading us down a slippery slope.  The schema 
> recommendation is clear that no language, other than a Turing-complete 
> programming language, can provide all the validation one might reasonably 
> want for one application or another.
> 
> Bottom line: I think that regex's represent a very reasonable 80/20 point 
> in the design space.  They provide a quite powerful and generally useful 
> level of checking, without requiring that we invent a portable programming 
> language in which to capture additional logic.  Thank you very much.
>

Received on Friday, 23 August 2002 14:24:21 UTC