On 02/02/2012 18:35, Bruno Le Floch wrote:
>> My preference is for "regexp", but I can see it might by now be a bit
>> awkward to change it.
>
> My original argument in favor of regex (besides the fact that
> Wikipedia's regex(p|) page uses that and that it's shorter) is that it
> matches nicely with (La|)TeX. Before I planned to include it in
> LaTeX3, I thought of calling the package ReGeX. :-)
In TeX parlance, it would be regexpr (think \numexpr, etc.), which for
me is too long. So I favour regex.
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Joseph Wright