OpenEuphoria

RE: more match() problems

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com May 28, 2003
• 407 views

On 28 May 2003, at 18:05, Al Getz wrote:

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> > > I guess i went too far in assuming there was a method
> > > to the madness.
> > >
> > > Anomaly number 97316 and counting...
> > 
> > Not an anomaly at all. I keep saying this but it doesn't seem to be 
> > making 
> > it across the language barrier...
> > 
> >   match() LOOKS FOR SLICES - ALWAYS.
> >   find() LOOKS FOR ELEMENTS - ALWAYS.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Derek Parnell
> > 
> 
> Yeah? no kiddin???
> 
> I realized i made the same mistake Kat made, but
> the post went through already, and there is no
> way to edit a post on Topica like there is in other 
> message boards i post on.  Once you hit that 
> button, that's it.

How i'd like to see it happen isn't a mistake. Presuming it would actually 
behave that way would be a mistake. Rather like the news report here: "you 
don't expect government employees to mistreat you on the phone", but i do 
expect that. I don't think it's right that they do, but i expect them to.

> It's a shame it solicited a response, because
> that response was a wasted effort.

Was not wasted! Other replies were generated, there may be a consensus 
that match(atom,sequence) should fall thru to find(). Besides, Derek has a 
way with that south hemisphere english that is clearer than Canadian 
sometimes.

Kat