tired: my regex is bad and I should feel bad

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

tired: my regex is bad and I should feel bad
wired: my regex is bad and whose fault is that huh, bitch.

#techPosting

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

(with full apologies to @[email protected])

(but also regex is something I learn and forget every time I need it)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aud inspired: this regex is bad and I will make it much, much worse >:3

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] never saw a line of regex I couldn't fuck up real proper like

[ahelwer@discuss.systems]

@aud come to the CFG dark side!

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] it's for a rust macro to see if a particular field is an Option and/or one of my custom structs blehhhhhhhhhhhhh

[ahelwer@discuss.systems]

@aud rust macros eh. well that's way further into the language than I will ever get probably

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] yeah... I really, really really hate it actually. It's technically preferable to writing thousands of lines of mostly-the-same boilerplate code

in the way that stepping on a larger piece of lego is nicer than stepping on a smaller one.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] https://codeberg.org/Astatide/satyr/src/commit/12087f70e3fa6b466aad365e5c224d04a9c452f8/crates/ap-inheritance/src/lib.rs#L274

it's basically the world's shittiest regex; I check a couple things to see if it's an Option or Option<ObjectOrLink> or Option<Object> then spit out different bits of code depending on that (basically matching for Some + Link or Object in the ObjectOrLink enum + Object). This is my first pass on the macro that works; you'll notice allllll sorts of badness like repeatedly compiling the regex expressions inside a map loop, lots of duplicate endpoints (I wasn't strictly sure whether they were different or not when handling the variants), etc

[ahelwer@discuss.systems]

@aud oh wow codeberg looks really nice. huh maybe I should set up shop on there

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] oh yeah, I dig it! Plus, while "AI" scrapers probably still hit it, at least I'm not directly feeding into CoPilot. That, and I'm not further ensconcing Microsoft's hegemony over open source.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aud actually regex should be apologizing to you https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/112951676507291814

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] IF I COULD LIKE THIS THRICE
I WOULD