On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 20:38 +0100, Chris Kuklewicz wrote: > skaller wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be nice to use Ville Laurikari's TRE > > package instead of PCRE? > > > > [It is also Posix compliant and drop in replacement for > > gnu regex .. as well as supporting nice extensions] > > > > It is possible to add support for more backends. > The more the merrier, no need to replace anything. > I have never heard of TRE before. TRE is actually based on mathematics. > I could use darcs or darwinports to install libtre. > Looking at the API, I see that it is very easy to add as a backend. > TRE is LGPL, which PCRE is BSD. Appeal to Ville to change the licence :) > TRE is not a replacement for PCRE. Who want's a replacement? PCRE is junk. Check the papers, cached here: http://felix.sf.net/papers/regex-submatch.ps http://felix.sf.net/papers/spire2000-tnfa.ps http://felix.sf.net/papers/greedy.pdf -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
