Re: modern regexes in emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Troy Hinckley <address@hidden> writes:

> I don’t think you could have a regexp object without a read
> syntax. Reading a regexp is such a common operation, where as reading
> a frame has limited usefulness.

A regexp object read syntax is a possibility, but it's orthogonal to
whether to have an object at all.

You can, after all, just write (pcre "foo|bar").

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