More Perl regex stuff in E

[Chip Morningstar]

MarkM sez:
>Here's a readability test: By reading this code, can you easily tell what 
>syntax it parses?

Ick. No I can't. I probably could but it would be a puzzle-solving excercise. I
guess regular expressions are basically a write-only notation. The
line-broken-and-commented form that somebody mentioned would be better.

And quoting in general is a deep well of confusion (I recall a lecture by Brian
Smith talking about ThreeLisp in which he went on for about an hour talking
about quote -- he apparently has roughly the same intellectual relationship
with quote that you have with EQ).

>(If your mailer wrapped the lines, please unwrap them before reading)

My mail software *never* does any line wrapping, but the lines I got are
wrapped, so I presume your mailer is doing the wrapping on send.