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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: New VSI post on Youtube
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:36:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:58:56 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 8/24/2024 8:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:21:12 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>> 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”.