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Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings
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Alex Shinn |
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Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings |
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:29:57 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) |
Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:
> 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?
I wasn't proposing adding anything :)
If Chicken switches to irregex, then we can just use SREs
and be rid of the ugliness of regex syntax forever.
--
Alex
Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings, felix winkelmann, 2008/10/10
Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings, Tobia Conforto, 2008/10/10