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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:27:09 +0000
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Subject: Re: Mapping Functions Versions for All and Some
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From: Joseph Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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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.
-- 
Joseph Wright

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