On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:51:32 -0400, Dmitry Olshansky
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 10.08.2011 15:34, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-08-10 12:42, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
In case I failed to mention it before, I m working on the project
codenamed FReD that is aimed at ~100%* source level compatible overhaul
of std.regex, that uses better implementation techniques, provides
modern Unicode support and common syntax riches.
I think it's time for a public beta release, since it _should_ be ready
for mainstream usage. There are some rough edges, and a couple issues
that I'm aware of but they are nowhere in realistic use cases.
In order to avoid unexpected regressions I'd be glad if current
std.regex users do try it for their projects/tests.
To get a small no-crap-included beta package see download section of
https://github.com/blackwhale/FReD for .7zs.
I'll upload newer packages as bugs get exposed and fixed.
Alternatively,
if you a comfortable with git you may just git clone entire repo. Some
helpful notes (same as README) can be found here :
https://github.com/blackwhale/FReD/wiki/Beta-release
Caveats:
In order for it compile a tiny change to 2.054 source is needed (no
need
to recompile Phobos! it's only in templates):
patch std.algorithm.cmp according to this diff
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/176/files#L0L4631
<https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/176/files#L0L4633>
and to get CTFE features working add if(!__ctfe) listed in the next
diff
on the same webpage.
(this is already upstream, so if you're using a fork of phobos just
pull
this in)
* some API problems might lead to a breaking change, though it didn't
happen in this release
I have a suggestion, make RegexMatch implicitly convertible to bool,
indicating if there was a match or not.
Interesting idea, one problem with it is that I want this:
auto m = match("bleh", "bleh");
writeln(m);
to actually print "bleh", not true
Without actually looking at the code, why wouldn't something like this
work?
struct RegexMatch
{
...
string toString() {...}
opCast(T : bool)() {...}
}
This isn't an implicit cast, but it will work for conditional statements.
-Steve
