Dmitry Olshansky: > http://dsource.org/projects/dmdscript-2. Note that I haven't touched it > in couple of dmd releases, it may need cosmetic fixes.
I will try it. > http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html, it could be a starting point, Before fully embracing the contents of that page, look at its critics too. > 3) When I saw Don's comments on fixing CTFE, I remembered something D > can do _better_ than most others mainstream compiled languages - > metaprogramming. So having a StaticRegex compiled at compile-time > (inevitable calambour) would give us an edge over comparative > implementations. But it inflates the binary too, if overused, because each RE pattern becomes a compiled function (or more than one). > Another thing to sort out is style: are we sticking with ECMA or > switching to Perl / GNU? Shall we provide also different versions of > syntax? One RE syntax in a language is more than enough :-) But there are some features of the Python REs that I'd like to see bolted-on to the ECMA REs used by D. So I suggest a superset of ECMA. Bye, bearophile
