Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:58:56 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 8/24/2024 8:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:21:12 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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But later MS Basic flavors did have them:
* VB/VBS/VBA has RegExp class and Scripting.Dictionary
    COM class
* VB.NET has System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex and
    System.Collections.Hashtable (later replaced by
    System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary)

 
Did you really have to type those longwinded names that just to access
them?
 
In Python, it’s just “import re”.

 
VB.NET like most modern languages use hierarchical
packages/namespaces. That tend to make the names longer.

Python does hierarchies, too. But it had the sense to use a short name for
such a commonly-used package as “re”.