Talk:Comparison of regular expression engines
Ill-defined terms
Too many of the terms used as headings are vague or apply only to the terminology used for one RE engine. What this article really needs is a glossary of its terms.
There's also a fair point to be made that many of the tables here could be prose, and that would facilitate citing them. -Harmil 19:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
- I agree a terminology description would be useful. However I strongly disagree some of the tables should be converted to text. First because that takes away this articles main feature - the ability to see differences within seconds without reading for hours - and secondly citing Wikipedia is discouraged anyway. // Sping 17:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
- Care to give examples of terminology you consider too vague or applicable only to "the terminology used for one RE engine?" (I'm not really sure what you mean by that.) I think the terms are fairly straightforward. IMO, a bigger problem is that a very large number of significant features supported by some regex libraries are not currently represented in the comparison tables here. --Monger 04:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
- What on earth is a "Lazy Quantifier"?
72.220.174.159 20:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Removing flavors with no information
Unless others disagree, I plan to remove from the comparison tables any flavors and engines which currently have no information about their features listed. Currently, this includes the following:
- ActionScript3.0
- Boost.Xpressive
- Grep
- GRETA
- Jakarta/Regexp
- Oniguruma
- SubEthaEdit
- Tcl 8.1
- TextMate
I would encourage others to list information about these engines' features, especially since a few of them are very significant and commonly used. However, I do not see any value in listing them without any information (none include any more than a couple "no"s). --Monger 00:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- I've gone ahead and done this. --Monger 01:00, 20 July 2007 (UTC)