At 11:28 AM -0500 8/27/98, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "BH" == Bill Houle <bhoule@sparc.sandiegoca.ncr.com> writes:
>
>BH> Jeffrey Friedl (O'Reilly RegExp book author) argues that it should be
>BH> "regex", since the plural flows better in that form
>
>My only concern is that the documentation should be consistent. I've used
>'regexp' throughout when needing to use an abbreviation of 'regular
>expression'; I saw 'regex' being used and figured that either they should
>be changed to 'regexp' or that all occurrences of 'regexp' should be
>changed to 'regex'. Either one or the other (I don't care which) but not
>both.
I'll change them all to "regexp" or "regular expression", depending on
context. The world "expression" is easily pluralized :).
-Bill
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