From: Jim Ursetto <zbignie...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Using irregex safely & responsibly [Was: Re: dev-snapshot 4.6.3] Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:00:05 -0500
> Why can't the compatibility code be included in the new irregex unit? > In other words, the old procedure names and behavior could be > deprecated but left in so that 1) we don't have to add a blob of > compatibility code to every egg, and 2) eggs using the old irregex API > would be compatible with all Chicken versions without rebuilding. > It's not very nice to the end-user to just remove procedures without > going through a deprecation phase. That's a good idea. This code could be added to irregex.scm without touching irregex-core.scm (the upstream code). cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
