OK, I'll put this proc in my own lib since there's no regexp-lib but a regexp-core in Guile. Anyway, it's almost completed now. One may copy the final version if needed.
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.homelinux.net>wrote: > Nala Ginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Well, I see. > > So the previous discussion didn't make this proc put into Guile? > > Now that so many people interested in this topic. > > I'm afraid I can't recall what happened following that thread. > > What feels important to me, though, is the elegance of the overall API. > There are already _some_ regex-related APIs in the core Guile library > (ice-9 regex) and I would guess that there are many many possible > variations of these and other string + regex processing APIs that one > might propose. Also we've now demonstrated that regex-split can be > implemented, on top of the existing library, with only a few lines of > code. Therefore I'd say (speaking only as an observer) that you need to > make a case for how your regex-split beautifully complements what's > already there in (ice-9 regex), or alternatively for replacing (ice-9 > regex) with a more beautiful set of operations including regex-split. > > Alternatively^2, you could package regex-split outside the core library, > as a test case for the guild hall. Then it doesn't need to be justified > in relation to (ice-9 regex), it can just be a convenient module that > provides a more Python-like API. > > Regards, > Neil >
