Re: GNU Awk's types of regular expressions

In article <vijlu6$35un4$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

This isn't meant as a statement of quality of software design
or existence of useful comments in GNU Awk. It's only so that
last time I looked into the sources (with the intention to add
new syntax and semantic for a feature I'd have liked) I wasn't
able to identify how to do it without doing harm to the code;
I'm lacking the familiarity with this source code. Of course I
could have looked into the source code instead of posting, but
the described experience lead me to not take that path.

You can always ask me directly.

Re "(where I'll see it)": My post's intention was not meant to
address/bother you personally - yet, all the more I appreciate
your reply! In this newsgroup there's also some folks who have
some expertise and might answer such questions.

True, but ultimately I'm authoritative. :-)

And I'm not a "client" of the mailing list.

You don't have to be subscribed to the bug list to send messages
there.

Arnold
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