Marijn <hk...@gentoo.org> writes: > ``Regular expressions crammed into string-syntax'' really needs to be > deprecated in Scheme implementations. SRE[1][2] is more expressive and > doesn't suffer from such exceptions.
I wholehearted agree that SRE is far superior, and that we should implement SRE and strongly encourage its use, but I wouldn't go so far as to _deprecate_ traditional regexp syntax. Like it or not, regexp syntax is burned into the minds of users everywhere, and for many common cases it is adequate and more concise. Patches welcome :) Mark