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Syntax synomyms #8
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Thank you. Someone suggested |
I agree |
I think it's actually really important to support |
Wouldn't
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"literal" could be a synonym to "exactly". In fact, I prefer "exactly". |
@llagerlof but what about the quantifier? What if you want to match something |
I said "exactly"? Sorry, I meant to say "literally". |
How do you feel about breaking language changes? Like replacing |
I'll try to avoid it as much as possible. If there will be any breaking changes, I'm going to deprecate the old syntax first, before removing it completely in a later release. |
Just a quick thought.. maybe it even makes sense to remove the
would become
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@KarimGeiger might be on to something! I think it's important for SRL to have an explicit word, but having it optional is great! |
In my eagerness I entered a similar issue. |
@thinkhuman Could usage of "match" be confusing as many languages use a |
What about |
@SamTebbs33 fair point, though finding language-agnostic words might prove difficult. Maybe "Matching"? As in
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@thinkhuman I don't think that's a good idea. It can really be confusing. for example =>
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By the way, why |
I think this would be confusing. |
I think we are leaving the purpose of this tool. "literally" is, literally, the best english word to write when you meant to write literally "something". |
@nsgonultas But they are doing semantically the same thing. |
Yes, they are semantically similar, but: |
There's too much being discussed here, it's hard to keep track of what's going on. Does it make sense to separate these out? And potentially moving this to the simpleregex/language repo? |
Already suggested from Reddit:
exactly
as synonym toliterally
either
as synonym toeither of
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