[Gllug] Re: Bash Data validation libraries

[Nix]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Rich Walker prattled cheerily:
> Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
> 
> 
>> We tried in SpamAssassin and the regexp got so unreadable that we ended
>> up turning it into an eval rule in Perl just for maintainability's sake.
> 
> Perl was easier to read?

Easier than the resulting mess, yes.

> no wonder SpamAssassin upgrades are so hard.

Well, the eval rules *are* the hardest part of getting dynamic rule
updates working...

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