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Just for historical purposes..

One of the frequent requests in the old Icon mailing list for Icon was adding regular expression support to the language. Unfortunately, I'm not sure who responded, but the best comeback to one of these requests was:

Asking for regular expressions in Icon is like asking for training wheels for a Harley

CheyenneWills 16:40, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

most modern scripting languages combine lists and tables into a single feature

I'm not aware of any evidence to support this claim.

In fact, I have never seen this ! To take the most well-known, Perl, Python, Ruby don't do this ! 213.244.14.206 14:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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