algebaric operations on a RegEx?

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> While I agree with this in general, sometimes I wish that 
> there were fewer ... because then we'd have much greater 
> opportunity for collaboration and code reuse.

Maybe this can be helped a bit if there is a way of many of 
those language developer to agree on 1 common intermediate code 
to compile to.

> The dogma of Python is that there is a "right way to do it", 
> rather than "there's more than one way to do it", but 
> practically, there are a lot of ways to do things in Python.

I liked that fine, and indeed I programmed in Perl mostly using 
one way I consider the right way (being Object Pascal developer 
in the past); and generally I would like Python if not for its 
requirement to use indentation to delimit statement blocks. I 
just cannot stand it to the degree I wanted to smash something 
when I tried it.

I like Ruby, just wishes its grammar was designed better 
(ideally fit into LL(1)/LALR(1)), so it is easier to develop a 
fast parser / interpreter / compiler; and wishes there is only 1 
way to define parameterized code block (instead of 3).

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