On Jun17, 2011, at 03:42 , Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> To make matters worse, our delimiters for regexes are the same as for
> strings, the single quote. So you get
>
> foo =~ 'bar' /* foo is the text column, bar is the regex */
> 'bar' =~ foo /* no complaint but it's wrong */
>
> 'bar' ~= foo /* okay */
> 'foo' ~= bar /* no complaint but it's wrong */
>
> How do I tell which is the regex here? If we used, say, /, that would
> be a different matter:
How is this different from the situation today where the operator
is just "~"?
best regards,
Florian Pflug
