Transcript and Dot Notation

[Richard Gaskin]

Judy Perry wrote:
> OPTIONAL dot.speak I fear will end Transcript's natural-language
> orientation.

Regex isn't exactly "natural", but those that use it like that it's 
included as an OPTION.

I don't recall anyone saying that RunRev was going to force users to 
replace years of legacy code with dot notation, any more than they 
forced folks to stop parsing strings with chunk expressions when they 
added regex support.

OPTIONS mean choice.  Only you are in control of the choices you make.

You can choose to use regex and then complain about having made that 
choice, but no one from RunRev is making that choice for you.

This is so very non-controversial I'm surprised it comes up again and 
again as such....

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