On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Bradley Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> wrote:
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> From: Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Snow-users-list] About ready to upload pregexp, but one
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> To: Matthew Martin <matt.a.martin@gmail.com>
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> On 28-Feb-08, at 12:34 AM, Matthew Martin wrote:
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>> But I was wondering, what category should it be? Do I need
>> to use one that exists, or could I do something like
>> (keywords: textproc)?
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> I guess "parsing" is the best existing category.  But in general, you
> can create a new category if none fits.

I think that regular expression engines form a category in themselves.

Brad

 I made it textproc, as I usually use it for... well, messing with text.
Things like TeX-related snowballs could go there too.
 
But I can understand parsing, the IRC package I'm working on
uses it more as a parser.

Then again like you said, I could see it being its own category as well.
Maybe something like Andrew Wright's "match" could go in that
category too.

In the end though, I was asked to stick it under parsing so that's where
it went.  I can always change it again if need be.