I'm thinking of adding regex literals to GNU Smalltalk. The only syntax
I found that would work is ##/regex/. /regex/ wouldn't work for the old
syntax, because the lexer has no way to understand that the / in this
example
a: b
/regex/ printNl
starts a regex and is not a division operator. It would work in the new
syntax (after one of [ ( { ^ . keyword: identifier binary-message, and
maybe a few more I forgot, / would start a regex, otherwise it would be
a division operator), but I don't like to add a feature that cannot be
ported to other Smalltalks.
What do you think? Right now I'm more for "no" or "not yet", but I'm
open to discussion.
Paolo
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