[Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

[Richard Welty]

On 1/23/15 10:13 AM, jgpacker wrote:
> I don't understand the insistence in using regexes as some kind of 
> argument against semicolon lists.
>
> A semicolon list is an extremely simple pattern.
> Such a pattern can be easily parsed even WITHOUT regexes.
>
> Me and other developers in this thread (Imagic, Friedrich, David, 
> Dmitry, Marc) are trying to tell you semicolons are not a problem.
>
+1

competent languages provide simple mechanisms for splitting
strings on single characters. sometimes the function is even
called "split"

richard

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