On Wednesday 11 May 2005 04:30, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > ...well, in looking at it some more it's reasonable until I see > that returning -1 is the way the other find_* ops work. So, > part of me thinks we should either be consistent with those, or > make the others consistent with the interpretation I gave above, or > rename the find_cclass and find_not_cclass ops to something different > (perhaps "span_cclass" and "span_not_cclass") so as to avoid > confusion, or deprecate the pre-existing find_* ops. IMO, we should deprecate the old find_* ops. It's a lot of (more or less) duplicate code, and not easy to maintain.
jens