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Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings |
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:51:54 +0200 |
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:36:02PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:
> > Could you give an example in which you need this?
>
> As a wild guess, regular expressions? The syntax of regexps
> is really horrible for any language which represents them as
> plain strings.
>
> On the other hand something like Gauche's #/.../ or Ruby's
> #rx{...} for a regular expression literal would be even more
> convenient, and potentially allow for the trailing imsx
> modifiers.
We do have the regex-literals egg... Do you propose adding that to
core Chicken?
Cheers,
Peter
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Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings, felix winkelmann, 2008/10/10
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