Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!uunet!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!news.bridge.com!news!kaelin From: kaelin@bridge.com (Kaelin Colclasure) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: vs. Perl Pattern Matching Date: 19 Oct 1994 13:14:04 GMT Organization: Bridge Information Systems, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <381st6$hsu@lace.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: binki.bridge.com In-reply-to: youngm@cs.colorado.edu's message of 19 Oct 1994 01:31:18 GMT Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:128 comp.lang.perl:34210 In article <381st6$hsu@lace.Colorado.EDU> youngm@cs.colorado.edu (YOUNG MATTHEW A) writes: While Perl probably isn't suited for large projects, its pattern-matching deserves comparrison with Beta's. Comments? I believe you're laboring under a slight misconception here-- Beta's patterns have nothing to do with regular expressions. The "pattern" in Beta is an abstraction which encompasses functions, classes, structures, etc. Refer to the Beta FAQ for a more detailed explanation... -- // Kaelin Colclasure --------------------------------------------------------- // EMail: kaelin@bridge.com Mail: Bridge Information Systems, Inc. // Voice: (314)567-8463 717 Office Parkway // Fax: (314)432-5391 St. Louis, MO 63141